A great game reference (the old ones) site located at
http://www.corpcomm.net/~gnieboer/gamehome.htm
Valerie Colston
http://www.artmuseums.com


Lucy Skjelstad wrote:

> How about also calling on the expertise of those of us (the old geezer
> and geezeress crowd) who had first hand experience, having actually
> (hard though it is to believe) been kids in 1945!!?
>
> I've been trying to think --what the heck did we do for fun before
> television????
>
> Setting aside the many wonderful radio series (Cisco Kid, The Lone
> Ranger, One Man's Family, The Shadow, etc.) because you want games,  the
> first thing that comes to mind is marbles.  When indoors, we'd use the
> circular and medallion patterns on the Persian rug to delineate the
> marble circle (which was drawn with a stick in the dirt when playing
> outdoors).  Jacks also was popular, especially with girls, and could be
> played either indoor or out.
>
> Hide-and-seek was a favorite.  Best played outdoors in those huge
> backyards with lots of trees and shrubs to hide in,  but also good in
> large houses that had basements with lots of hiding spots.
>
> As for table games,  we played cards constantly --Rummy, Old Maid,
> Go-Fish, Concentration and Solitaire. Canasta became extremely popular
> also, beginning about that time, though I remember it more from about
> 1948 or so. I think is was mostly an adult game in its first years, then
> kids above age 10 or so learned and loved it (it is more complicated
> and  more sophisticated than Rummy).  There were also a lot of card
> games that were not with regular playing cards but with special decks
> such as Authors, Pit, etc.
>
> There were a number of board games (though not so many as now)
> --Checkers, and Chinese Checkers were basic, plus Parcheesi, and, or
> course,  endless games of Monopoly.  I still have a trading game called
> Finance (c.1936) though I think it was more an adult board game.  Call
> on a games collector to get more ideas.
>
> By the way, does anyone know where Erica Wilson is now??  She is a games
> collector who curated a fabulous exhibit for me some years
> ago......she'd be able to name instantly every board game available at
> that time. Her husband, Craig, is a University Librarian.  I'd love to
> make contact with her again, if any of you out there have run into them.
>
> Come on, the rest of you,  don't be shy about admitting you were a kid
> in 1945......
>
> Lucy Skjelstad
>
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