Nov 24 2024
Atlantic City photos by Will T Rogers
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Photographer takes picture of outdoor video screen near Steel Pier
Some arrive by train, car, boat, bus, plane, or limousine; but some prefer the old fashioned way!
Some enter casinos via the boardwalk and some through the back entrances with quaint views
View while strolling down the Atlantic City Boardwalk
Is this a roof-level casino sign or is it a crooked roulette wheel?
Other boardwalk attractions
Enter the premises at your own risk!
Atlantic City gull admires hotel bedding
View of Atlantic City Beach from Steel Pier
Second View from pier
The Life Guard Station is where the action is
Some come to gamble and some come for the sun
Sky ad pulled above beachfront by small propeller plane (see tow lines at left)
Colorful alley
What did you expect?
Did you say you were interested in a steak?
Frisky white horses at Caesars
In case you lose your shirt at blackjack you can replace it!
Are winning numbers cryptically concealed in sign at the right?
See the Ferris Wheel in distance
One last view of Atlantic City Beach
How do you get to Atlantic City, New Jersey?
Were the streets in Monopoly named after actual Atlantic City streets or was it the other way round?
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Mediterranean Avenue |
Vermont Avenue |
Baltic Avenue |
Indiana Avenue |
Illinois Avenue |
Atlantic Avenue |
St. Charles Place |
Pacific Avenue |
Marvin Gardens |
New York Avenue |
North Carolina Avenue |
Ventnor Avenue |
Baltic Avenue |
Pennsylvania Avenue |
Virginia Avenue |
Saint James Place |
Kentucky Avenue |
Boardwalk |
Tennessee Avenue |
Park Place |
Oriental Avenue |
Connecticut Avenue |
Monopoly in the News
The real St. Charles Place has disappeared from Atlantic City but kept for Monopoly
Illinois Avenue has been renamed, although not on Monopoly
It was recently discovered that Marvin Gardens should have been spelled Marven Gardens on board
Did You Know?More than 275 million games have been sold worldwide and it’s available in 111 countries, in 43 languages.
The longest MONOPOLY game in history lasted for 70 straight days.
The most expensive version of the game was produced by celebrated San Francisco jeweler Sidney Mobell. Valued at $2 million, the set features a 23-carat gold board and diamond-studded dice.
Many specialized editions of the classic game have been produced featuring your favorite sports teams, brands, television shows, cartoons and more.
The character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
Children play MONOPOLY all over the world, but where they live may determine what they call the highest rent property on the game board. In the U.S., it is named “Boardwalk” after a street in Atlantic City. In Spain, it is named “Paseo del Prado” after a street in Barcelona and in France, “Rue de la Paix” is the name of the most coveted property space. The names for places on the UK version of the game include:
Monopoly over the years
Escape maps, compasses and files were inserted into MONOPOLY game boards smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during World War II. Real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of MONOPOLY money.
Every few years, national champions from around the globe meet for the MONOPOLY World Championship tournament. World Champions have hailed from 10 different countries, including: United States, Ireland, Singapore, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Japan and Spain.
More than six billion little green houses and 2.25 billion red hotels have been “constructed” since 1935. Since 1935, more than one billion people have played the game.
Over 20 tokens have been cast since the MONOPOLY game was introduced in 1935 such as the horse, dog, car, elephant, purse and lantern.
Demand for MONOPOLY skyrockets and it quickly becomes America’s No.1 game!
More than just a game – MONOPOLY is used by British Secret Service in WWII.Our beloved tokens! In the early 1950s, the lantern, purse and rocking horse were removed from the game. They were replaced by the dog, horse and rider, and wheelbarrow.
In the 1970’s, a Braille edition of the MONOPOLY game was created for the visually impaired.
In 1972, the Commissioner of Public Works in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the real life model for the game, threatened to change the names of the real Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues; but public outcry vetoed the bill.
In 1978, the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered a chocolate version of the game priced at $600.
Money and property ownership symbolize success in the 1980’s and the MONOPOLY brand seems to match up. Localizations, licenses, and spin-offs of MONOPOLY allow people all over the world to live the dream of owning it all. MONOPOLY develops strategic partnerships (MONOPOLY at McDonald’s promotion) and brand extensions (first CD-Rom game) becoming a recognizable cultural icon including becoming a US postage stamp!
MONOPOLY has launches on seven platforms in 27 countries, and is localized into 20 languages with nearly 10 million worldwide mobile phone game downloads
Tokens from the United States MONOPOLY: Here & Now Edition were flown into space aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2007.
In 2008, MONOPOLY fans around the world united to set the world record for the most people playing MONOPOLY at the same time to commemorate the launch of MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World edition. Nearly 3,000 people “passed GO” at events around the world.
“Best Mobile Game Award” at the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards (MONOPOLY Here & Now on feature phone)
“Best Dice Game” at the 2009 Best App Ever Awards (MONOPOLY Classic on iPhone)
“Best Game inspired by a Board Game” at the 2009 AppAdvice App Awards (MONOPOLY Here & Now on iPhone)In 2009, MONOPOLY and Google partner to launch MONOPOLY City Streets. The 3 month game had more than 1.4MM registered players, from across the world generating 17 million visits and nearly a billion page views while purchasing nearly 9 million streets and constructing more than 175 million buildings.
MONOPOLY’s most recent extensions: Apple iPhone - February 2010
11 Obscure Monopoly Trivia Facts
Published Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 12:00:00 PMBased on probability, the most commonly landed on Monopoly square (not counting Jail) is Illinois Avenue. It's followed by Go, New York Avenue, B&O Railroad, Reading Railroad and Tennessee Avenue.
The reasons for most of those is a mix between dice probabilities and where Chance cards send you. (When you leave jail, odds are you'll hit one of the orange properties. From there, you’re most likely to hit Illinois or B&O. And everything sends you toward Go.)
The least-likely square you'll land on is Mediterranean Avenue. Just above that are Baltic Avenue, Luxury Tax, Park Place and Oriental Avenue.
For a lot of those, the probabilities are low because of the Go To Jail square... for example, it’s seven spots from Park Place, meaning you can’t roll a seven (the most common possible roll) and end up there.
There's no such place as Marvin Gardens. There’s an area in Atlantic City called Marven Gardens.
Apparently, it was misspelled on the first prototype of the game and never got fixed.
In classic Monopoly (none of these new, inflation-oriented editions), the bank contains $15,140.
Only two of the four railroads in the game were actually accurate when the game debuted in the 1930s. The B&O Railroad never served Atlantic City, and there's no such thing as the Short Line Railroad. (AC used to have a streetcar service called the Shore Fast Line and was served by a railroad called the Seashore Lines, so the name was probably inspired by one of those.)
The former Illinois Avenue.
Illinois Avenue doesn't exist anymore. It was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. back in the '80s, when everyone was renaming streets after MLK. (Kind of like that brief period a few years back when Texas almost renamed every single street, airport, park and dog after Ronald Reagan.)St. Charles Place also doesn't exist anymore. There's a casino where it used to be (the Showboat Casino Hotel).
McDonald's teamed up with Monopoly several times to run a promotion where you'd get Monopoly game pieces on fries or drinks or whatever. If you collected all of the properties in a monopoly, you’d win a prize. Collecting Park Place and Boardwalk was always worth $1,000,000. That's not an obscure fact, everyone knows all that.
You probably also remember that in 2001, it came out that the game had been RIGGED for years. McDonald's used an independent company called Simon Marketing to run the contest and some of their employees ran a scam where they’d steal the best game pieces, give them to friends or family members, then split the money. Fifty-one people ended up getting indicted for fraud.
Now here’s the obscure part... and a glorious example of a head shaking attempt to work the American legal system. One of the people indicted for fraud was Stanley Warwick. In 1999, he "won" the million dollar prize, thanks to a piece that was passed to him by a friend inside of Simon. When Warwick was indicted for conspiracy to commit mail fraud in 2001, his annual payments of $50,000-a-year for 20 years stopped.
In 2005, his widow, Naomi, sued McDonald’s to continue the payments. Seriously. (I couldn't find any articles on how that suit turned out... it may still be pending.)
There are tons of localized versions of Monopoly which are officially licensed by Hasbro. Lots of major U.S. cities have their own versions of the game, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Vegas, Orlando, et. al.
And then... there are two incredibly obscure Wisconsin cities that also have their own officially licensed versions of Monopoly: Fox Cities, Wisconsin, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin. (?)
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