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Next Event: September 24 - 25, 2022 10am-5pm both daysRandolph Street Market 1341 W Randolph St, Chicago

Collection Trends: Board Games

EXCLUSIVELY FOR RANDOLPH STREET MARKET BY NENA IVON, nenasnotes

Recently I have found myself wanting to play board games…is this a winter thing…no, I think a year round thing! While visiting friends at their county cottage a few weeks ago, I found they love to spend weekend evenings entertaining friends, after a divine home cooked supper, playing board games. Imagine actually sitting with “real” people at a table and moving game pieces, tossing dice, stretching your brain and enjoying a giggle or two or three!! We have gotten so use to playing games on our gaming systems or on our tech devices…think PacMan, Candy Crush, Words With Friends, Jeopardy, the list goes on and on and grows daily…let alone the zillion versions of solitaire (I’ll address card games and collecting decks of cards in another post!) we are losing the camaraderie of being with people. Well, that is true of so much of today’s culture isn’t it!! How modern to enjoy the challenges the many versions of board games give us.

Let’s look at their history and then talk about what you might find at the monthly RANDOLPH STREET MARKET….who knows! Board games have been found in Egyptian tombs and, as shown at the top of this post, painted on the walls of the tombs. They can be traced back 6000 years. Senet, as shown in this fresco and in the painting below, dates to around 3500 BC.

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Backgammon originated in Persia 5000 years ago. Chess, Pachisi from India. And The Royal Game of Ur, the oldest game known with surviving original rules, is over 2000 years old.

Board Games Randolph Street Market

The Royal Game of Ur

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Hounds and Jackals from 13th Dynasty Egypt.

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Snakes and Ladders began as an ancient Indian game still widely played today.

You might even want to start a collection of these amazing little works of art. Here are a few examples that I have found over the years at RSM, photos taken by me.

Board Games Randolph Street Market

A version of Snakes and Ladders.

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

As a child I loved all games most especially Monopoly….we certainly did not want to land in “Jail” but rather acquire the most prestigious real estate….what could be more fun. There are dozens of versions of this one of the all time best selling board games. Conceived and patented as The Landlords Game in 1903 by a feminist, Lizzie Magie (she wasn’t credited with creating Monopoly). Here is the original patented design…

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

And the original design for Monopoly… 1935.

Board Games Randolph Street Market

A couple of books…

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

And other games…

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Some decorating ideas…

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Another book suggestion, two editions…

Board Games Randolph Street Market

Board Games Randolph Street Market

And a board game Café…they seem to be everywhere…who knew!!!!!!

Board Games Randolph Street Market

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by Nena Ivon
www.nenasnotes.com
www.facebook.com/Nena Ivon
www.instagram.com/nenasnotes

All photos from Pinterest photo credits unknown.

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Hi all, this is Sally, the person who sends you the emails and you see at the front gate, I am the creator, owner and recipient of all bills addressed to the Randolph Street Market. I see it's customary that business owners share their stories and so I shall now. For adults only, I'll see you crossing the street by the way so stop now if you're a prude!!!

Bottom line, I need to have fun - A LOT OF FUN - and any career path I took was going to be in the general direction of downtown FUN CITY!! I think the Randolph Street Market is about the best fun I could ever imagine. It combines the things that are the most fun for me: learning about history, art and fashion; shopping; and socializing with my favorite, most interesting people. What it doesn't do is bore me -- I CANNOT handle boring people or boring places; I am always so happy being home so when I go somewhere it better knock my pantaloons off.

While I now produce this almost 20 yr-old antique market, my professional event career started at age 25 when I opened my own party planning company called Paint Me A Party, renamed in 2000 Image Pilots Global Event Navigators, producers of the "World-Famous Randolph Street Market"! 

But let's go back to a time before big time careers and motherhood, to my childhood as indentured servant growing up in Chicago's northern suburbs. That's where I got my start in the hospitality business as my mother would take me from my comfortable spot in front of the TV and drop me off at her friends' homes, where I was to be "of service" at their dinner parties. I was not asked if I wanted to leave the TV set and spend my Friday and Saturday nights hanging up coats, keeping water glasses full and washing dishes for maybe $5 dollars. 

I'm pretty sure I never actually used soap, just hot water, and once to show the client how much good sanitation meant to me, I went full Christo and wrapped their entire kitchen in Saran wrap including their stovetop, sink and cabinets... they did not value my art installation titled "Meticulous Cleanliness" -- so I was DONE with them!! (read comments for more..!) ⬇️
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