Board games during 1930s

Instead, family and friends spent time at home listening to big bands on the gramophone, serial soap operas, news and radio plays on the radio and in — wait for it — conversation. Movies were great but talking and gossiping during them made you very unpopular. A new, inexpensive craze was sweeping the nation.

Jigsaw puzzles and board games could be enjoyed by all. And when completed, you could trade the puzzles with your neighbors. Hollywood starlet Adrienne Ames relaxes with a jigsaw puzzle in the pool.

Note the title but there is no picture as a guide Puzzles could be sold in series; purchased at your local news stand via eBay Note the box showing the finished product photo via Pinterest.

Susan Saunders Legacy Video Producer. Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Instagram! Has anyone heard of the game Washington Punch? My mother had said she played it as a child. She was born in My sisters and neighbor kids played Washington Punch in Sandpoint, Idaho. I was born in I think it was a version of hide and seek. And everyone else would run and hide. Has anyone heard of a game called camel, where one person bends over and holds a stick and other jump on him to try to knock him over.

However, you might find the reason for the interest in the board game simple. Board games became popular during the s as it allowed families and friends to spend time together without having to spend money. The truth about Monopoly and the Great Depression is Monopoly held many benefits for families. One of these benefits was that Monopoly allowed families to forget about their life stresses.

During the Great Depression, many members of the family felt overwhelmed by the difficulties of the economy. Parents and children as old as 7 or 8 would be found working for pennies a day. When Delbert and his wife had children, they got together with friends whose children were the same age.

They played hide-and-go-seek or drop the handkerchief with the children. He says, "You didn't have no money to go no place. You didn't have no money to go down and buy the kids an ice cream cone or anything like that so you just stayed home. Louise Dougherty says her favorite form of entertainment was reading , especially when her father, a lawyer and judge, read aloud to her. Even though farm life was difficult in the s, children growing up in that era found ways to have fun just doing "kid things.