Old Games Around My House: Clue, my favorite 1940s edition. Last post—see previous three for box, board, character and room cards. Here are the weapons, in case you forgot how Clue characters kill each other. I always puzzled over the idea of killing somebody with a wrench. Was this a common murder weapon back in the day?
Old Games Around My House: Clue, my favorite 1940s edition. Favorite? Yes, I have two more from the 1940s-1950s, plus a 1972 Columbo edition. Don’t judge me. Box and board in first post, character cards last post, and here are the room cards. I love the typography that feels like somebody hand lettered everything.
Switching for a while to Old Games Around My House, ahead of a game night for pals this weekend. I said I’d send pix of available choices but there are too many to text them so I’m posting them all on X. Here, you can’t do a thread but I feel I must show you all #3, my favorite edition of Clue from the 1940s. Will post the cards separately. I know you want to see Miss Scarlet.
Cool Things I Found Cleaning Out My Center Desk Drawer #6: White Sox iron-on patch! Going by the color and pinstripes this is from the legendary early '70s era featuring Dick Allen and Bill Melton. Sadly you can’t do threads here but I’ll post the fabulous Sports Illustrated cover of Dick Allen juggling in this red striped uniform next. …
Cool Things I Found In My Center Desk Drawer #5, Part A: Magnetic King Tut in coffin, from Museum of Science and Industry gift shop, probably 1960s. In Chicago, the Egyptian stuff is at the Field Museum of Natural History of the Art Institute, but this King Tut demonstrates the magic of magnetism, thus fitting in the MSI’s wheelhouse. Lo…
Cool Things I Found In My Center Desk Drawer #4: Four, yes four, clear plastic containers of Pick-A-Dillies plastic toothpicks. 50s vintage, I’m thinking. These were the last things I bought—$1 each—from a lamentably now vanished Chicago called Uncle Fun, which sold old crap like this they bought bulk from the recesses of I assume abandoned warehouses in New Jersey.
Cool Things I Found In My Center Desk Drawer, Part Three: Bill Clinton’s cardboard 1992 election tchotchke—previously, his opponents George Bush and Ross Perot. Push down on the bit of cardboard above Bill’s head to make his mouth move. Gotta love his three possible sayings, and how relevant the first one became. Again, this is why I wil…
Cool Things I Found In My Center Desk Drawer, Part Two: Ross Perot’s cardboard tchotchke from the 1992 election. As with George Bush (Part One), you push on the cardboard bit sticking out above Ross Perot’s head and it moves his mouth. In retrospect, why doesn’t it say something about “the big sucking sound”? I think I actually voted fo…
Cool Things I Found In My Center Desk Drawer, Part One: Cleaning it out, but ONLY to organize. I will never enrich influencers telling me to get rid of anything I haven't used in 6 months. I haven't used these since the 1992 presidential election. First, George Bush. FYI, these are made out of light cardboard. You push the part that's st…