Posted: 1/15/2010 3:09:52 AM EDT
| In 1857, Joseph C. Gayetty of New York City invented toilet paper. |
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Escape maps, compasses, and files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during W.W.II; real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of Monopoly money.
What I want to now is how the hell you "smuggle" a damn monopoly board anywhere?! That will not fit in your pocket. 
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Escape maps, compasses, and files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during W.W.II; real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of Monopoly money.
What I want to now is how the hell you "smuggle" a damn monopoly board anywhere?! That will not fit in your pocket. POW's could usually receive care packages. |
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Escape maps, compasses, and files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during W.W.II; real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of Monopoly money.
What I want to now is how the hell you "smuggle" a damn monopoly board anywhere?! That will not fit in your pocket. POW's could usually receive care packages. I know, I just had this image of someone trying to stick a Monopoly board under their coat...made me laugh. I need more coffee, me thinks. |
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Escape maps, compasses, and files were inserted into Monopoly game boards and smuggled into POW camps inside Germany during W.W.II; real money for escapees was slipped into the packs of Monopoly money.
What I want to now is how the hell you "smuggle" a damn monopoly board anywhere?! That will not fit in your pocket. POW's could usually receive care packages. I know, I just had this image of someone trying to stick a Monopoly board under their coat...made me laugh. I need more coffee, me thinks. The boards in these weren't really boards. They were cloth. Also, when they talk of smuggling them in, they weren't sneaking these in to the camps without the guards knowing. The Monopoly sets were part of the Red Cross supplies the Germans allowed the POWs to receive. They just had a lot of escape supplies concealed inside. I've seen one of these before in a museum. The boxes were wood and had secret compartments carved in them with things like conmpasses, files, and signal mirrors hidden in them. The boards two pieces of quilted silk. The part you could see had the monopoly board on the front of one piece and the Monopoly logo on the other. When you split the seams and opened it up there were escape maps on the backs of both pieces. |
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I've seen one of these before in a museum. The boxes were wood and had secret compartments carved in them with things like conmpasses, files, and signal mirrors hidden in them. The boards two pieces of quilted silk. The part you could see had the monopoly board on the front of one piece and the Monopoly logo on the other. When you split the seams and opened it up there were escape maps on the backs of both pieces. Now I have to see if I can find some pics of that. Sounds neat. NPR's history of Monopoly with almost no mention of this?  Just a smidge of a snippett on the side bar.
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I've seen one of these before in a museum. The boxes were wood and had secret compartments carved in them with things like conmpasses, files, and signal mirrors hidden in them. The boards two pieces of quilted silk. The part you could see had the monopoly board on the front of one piece and the Monopoly logo on the other. When you split the seams and opened it up there were escape maps on the backs of both pieces. Now I have to see if I can find some pics of that. Sounds neat. NPR's history of Monopoly with almost no mention of this? Just a smidge of a snippett on the side bar.Man, how stupid would you feel if after years in a POW camp, playing Monopoly, and after the war you take it home and THEN find out there were things smuggled in the box. Oh, TP FTMFW!!! I prefer Charmin, please...don't squeeze it. ByteTheBullet (-: |
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In 1857, Joseph C. Gayetty of New York City invented toilet paper. And I used to goto church with his great grand son, Joe, good man, can't remember if he owns or what his exact title was, but a company called Miller Fall Protection. When I joined the Air Force and got stationed out in South Dakota, Joe and his wife Joanne passed through on a vacation, took me out to an expensive restaurant and paid for dinner. The Gayetty family is a good bunch of people. Zach ETA/ETC: He may have just been the grand son, not 100% sure, he told me the story probably 7 years ago. |