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By Erik Arneson, About.com Guide to Board / Card Games since 1999

Monopoly and Atlantic City

Saturday June 19, 2004
Atlantic City, New Jersey, celebrates its 150th anniversary this year and the Camden (NJ) Courier-Post is taking a look at the town's relationship to the board game Monopoly. In this article, William Darrow, the son of the man credited with inventing Monopoly (Charles Darrow), rejects the notion that his father stole the game idea, asking, "Where were they [the accusers] when my father was alive and could defend himself?"

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