By 1936, Parker Brothers owned a monopoly on Monopoly. Phillips's patent on the Landlord Game and the rights for a few other similar games. The firm acquired Darrow's version and its subsequent patent. Word of the game's success reached Parker Brothers. Realizing the potential to provide income for his family, Darrow invested in five hundred printed copies and sold them through a few stores, most notably FAO Schwarz toy stores and the John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia. Darrow played this early version with his friends, then began to make and sell copies, which preserved the street names from Atlantic City, to others. Monopoly became a fixture at certain eastern colleges, and homemade copies, which usually featured street names from the maker's hometown, found their way eventually to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her 1903 game espoused Henry George's single tax theory (that only real estate should be taxed).
Darrow was the first to publish Monopoly, which evolved from Elizabeth Magie-Phillips's Landlord Game. Parker Brothers acquired the game from an unemployed steam-heating repairman, Charles Darrow of Mount Airey (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania. Few realized that its board spaces were named afterĬounterparts in one specific community ( Atlantic City, New Jersey), and fewer still knew that the game's predecessor dated back to the turn of the century. Its success was actually enhanced by the Great Depression: Millions of people from Maine to California found its vicarious promise of wealth to be irresistible, in stark contrast to the grim economic realities of their daily lives. The Monopoly game was first published by Parker Brothers in 1935 and quickly became the nation's most popular board game.
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