1/21/2024 0 Comments 1933 original monopoly boardOn Hoskins’s original board, this was named Arctic Avenue it was later changed to Mediterranean by Charles Darrow (once popularly considered to be Monopoly’s sole creator) because he liked the warmer feel of the name.īaltic Ave: Who would expect to find a J. Mediterranean Ave: Running northeast through the city, Mediterranean Ave mostly consists of low-rise residential properties. This past weekend, I was driving through south Jersey, and decided to make a quick detour through Atlantic City to see what the Monopoly board looks like in real life. Hoskins had learned a version of the game in Indianapolis, and upon moving to Atlantic City in 1929, made her own copy from scratch naming properties after streets where her friends lived. Monopoly itself has a long and complicated history, but the addition of Atlantic City-based street names can be traced to one Ruth Hoskins. What I didn’t know back then was that the properties in Monopoly were in fact named after the streets of Atlantic City. I remember thinking of Mediterranean and Baltic as being these short, run-down alleys ala West Side Story, while Pennsylvania Ave and the other greens as Fifth Avenue-style apartment buildings. Whenever I played Monopoly as a kid, I used to love imagining what the game’s city would look like in real life.
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