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MONOPOLY HISTORY, LANDLORDS GAME HISTORY
Game Images, Game Rules, Articles, Commentary
History of monopoly and Landlords games; popular myths vs. historical facts...

  - TRANSFER OF TT.TF WEBSITE IN PROGRESS... Updated: March 1st, 2009
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COMING TO THE WEBSITE
RULES, IMAGES, HISTORY:
- LANDLORD'S GAME: 1903-1904 - Elizabeth J. Magie, 1904 Patent
- LANDLORD'S GAME: 1903 - Arden, Delaware  Called Landlords, this game was also monopoly dupicated from a Magie cloth design.
- LANDLORD'S GAME: 1906 - Elizabeth J. Magie  Economic Game Company, New York
- MONOPOLY GAME: 1910 - John Ormard Heap  -  Altoona, PA streets
- LANDLORD'S GAME: 1913 - Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit - London, England.  Original named Landlord's Game - Annan, Scotland.
- MONOPOLY GAME: 1916 - Paul Sherk, Wyomissing, PA
- LANDLORD'S GAME: 1924 - Elizabeth Magie Phillips
- LANDLORD'S GAME: 1927 - Roy Stryker, Columbia University, NY
- LANDLORD'S GAME AND PROSPERITY GAME: 1932 - Adgame Co., Elizabeth Magie Phillips
- FINANCE GAME: 1932 - Electronic Labortories, Incorporated
- FINANCE GAME: 1932 - Knapp Electric, Incorporated
- MONOPOLY GAME: 1933 - Atlantic City Quaker monopoly rules as taught by Todd and Raiford to Darrow
- INFLATION GAME: 1936 - Rudy Copeland, Thomas Sales Co., Fort Worth Texas.
- LANDLORD'S GAME: 1939 - Parker Brothers

COMMENTARY and ATRTICLES BY THOMAS FORSYTH & GUEST

BOOKS

MONOPOLYGATE  Book Recommendation:
The True Story Behind Monopoly®. Truth seeker Ralph Anspach brings us a must read book that challenges other accounts of the history; indeed Ralph wrote much of the history during his decade plus court battles. Supported by facts, this story brings us all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and back to Lizzie Magie.
Available through vendors such as XLibris Books, Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, and others.
THE PLAYMAKERS  Book Recommendation:
A beautiful coffee table book by Tim Walsh. It has a great chapter on the history of the Landlord's Game and Monopoly®.
Spanning a century of toys and games this is a great coffee table book for all ages.

RECOMMENDED WEB LINKS
ANTIMONOPOLY.COM
You can buy the Anti-Monopoly® board game, read about Ralph Anspach's book, his court battles, and additional history.
The updated site has web links for electronic games and additional game history. Includes 'Live Help.'
HISTORY DETECTIVES - 'History Detectives' brings to light newly discovered history on the origins of Monopoly®. This site's author helped PBS put together the PBS program, program includes interview with this site's author, Thomas Forsyth, and others. The episode turned out to be one of the most popular pieces done by the program. For additonal info see pbs.org"

THANKS & CONTRIBUTIONS

This site is not possible without the generous contributions of many people who have shown me their trust, shared both their knowledge and their resesearch. A few names I'd like to metion; Ralph Anspach, Richard Biddle,Chris Williamson, Phil Orbanse, Becky Hoskins, Albert Veldhuis, Ronald Jarrell, Tim Walsh, David Sadowski, Dan Glimne, Kristian Berg, Geo. M. Meiser, Charles J. Adams III; the Magie, Sherk, Thun, and Nearing families, my loving parents, my sister Ann, my good friends, and any others I haven't yet named but I am very grateful for their insight, contributions, and endless assitance.

If you have something to contribute, let me know. This is a site to share.
You can help promote yourself through contributions to this site with credit to you.
Let's discuss how we can help each other tell the history.

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