When I played this board game as a child the railroads depicted thereon were the Baltimore & Ohio and the Reading Co. - both long gone - absorbed or assimilated. The hotel properties were depicted along the avenues of Atlantic City - long before the casinos appeared. And the tokens used to move around the board included a "flat iron" - an appliance that your grandmother used to iron your grandfather's shirts on Tuesday - (Monday being wash day). But now I read that to modernize the game the flat iron has been replaced by a "silver pussycat" - the choice being twice as popular as the Scottie dog - and blamed on the "all powerful cat lobby." There are 86 million cats in American households several of whom have friended me on F-book so whereas my sentiments would be with the Scottie dog, I dare not offend this powerful lobby. Meow!
tjs
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