Todd testified that Darrow asked him for the rules, and that his secretary typed a dozen copies for Darrow. The Todds taught Esther and Charles Darrow. The Raifords and Harveys lent their games to fellow Quakers visiting at Atlantic City hotels, and taught friends and relatives to play they, in turn, taught Olive and Charles Todd. The Harveys played the game with their friends, Jesse and Dorothea Raiford. Harvey then drew the first 'Monopoly' game board with Atlantic City street names.
She moved East to teach at the Atlantic City Friends School, and in 1930 played the game with a fellow teacher, Cyril Harvey, and his wife.Īccording to game collector Ms. Testimony from the lawsuit, cited in Sotheby's catalog, revealed how a young woman named Ruth Hoskins had learned to play a version of the 'Landlord's Game' called 'Finance,' in Indianapolis in 1929, from her brother, who had learned it at college.
