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Greensboro Is a Monopoly! by Billy Ingram An august gathering of distingué Gate City muckety-mucks turned out just days ago for the unveiling of Hasbro’s MONOPOLY: Greensboro Edition. You may have spotted top-hatted Mr. Monopoly bobbing his mustachioed bubble head bounding around town pounding out publicity for this game-changing shift in the pop culture landscape. Gone are those irrelevant Atlantic City (yankee) landmarks, familiar Greensboro locales now line the lanes. Rev your race car or waddle your duck over to Lindley Park, Lake Brandt or Tournament Town, pay the exorbitant Coliseum Ticket Fee, roll the dice to buy Fisher Park after passing Go and extorting the city out of 2 Benjamins, put properties on top of Downtown Greensboro and collect the rent like you’re Dawn Chaney, land in jail or cruise instead to the Food Truck Festival then go broke. Eerily similar to real life. “Thank you to Hasbro for highlighting some of the things we are proud of… we truly have hundreds of places in this community that could have been on this board,” gushed Mayor Nancy Vaughan to the assembled who were merrily munching light hors d’oeuvres prepared by Freeman’s Grub & Pub (delish!) at the Natural Science Center where the unveiling took place; both of those beloved institutions are honored with spaces on the board, natch. Snacks were nice and all but $200 cash might have been more apropos, IMHO. Available right now wherever games are peddled. Some winning strategies on this, the 90th anniversary since MONOPOLY first debuted then quickly became the most popular game in America? Buy lots of property early on, invest in all 4 Trails (railroads on the original) and never, ever play MONOPOLY with a date, wait until after you’re married to reveal that hidden devious side of your personality.
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