A Giant Monopoly Board Was Literally ‘Swept Under The Carpet’

Some people went on to believe that these unusual discoveries were the selling points for these properties. This has been a trend of sorts with reality television and similar stories have been broadcasted on HGTV shows. Courtesy Modern Met via Laughing squid, a fascinating large game board for monopoly was under covered through shared experience of a Reddit user named, Yamaha234. This user shared a photograph of this interesting game board online. According to him the board is completely hand painted, visually provocative and counts in every detail of the game in precision.

He claims it was discovered by his in-laws, concealed under floor carpet, brought to light when the former ripped it open during moving process. Imagery is appealing as it includes all the places characterized in the actual game, ranging from Park Place to the Boardwalk and the jail. The inspiration of board design seems to be the original Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) game. The amount of commitment and layout accuracy had everyone wondering why this board was painted in the first place.

Rhetorically, maybe the owners were just big fans of the game or maybe it was a fad at the time. No one knows for sure, but one thing was clear, this massive hand painted board was a unique and exciting concept. A Reddit user Nirth confirmed that mid century America was famous for these boards and it was actually a trend after all. The user apparently showed the pictures posted online to his wife, who reminded him of a neighborhood around them which was famous for these basement artworks in 1950s.

According to Nirth’s wife, these artworks were painted or tiled on basement floors in houses built during the mid 50s and this acted like a significant eye catcher and selling point for property at the time. Considering how these giant game boards have an attached rare/vintage artwork feels to it, Yamaha234 finds himself drawn to them. He decided to convince his in-laws to keep the board intact since one can never be sure how much of these boards survived or will survive the test of time.

Preservation of these antique artworks is important to him now, since it would be such a waste to discard them entirely. He proposed more logical solution such as covering the board in epoxy and fixing the original flooring around it as they desired. Such discoveries irked the curiosity of readers into imagining if there were more house build along the same lines but with different types of game boards, to name a few Candy land or The Game of Life possibly?

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