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The art of Totopoly; Learning the hard knocks.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 26-DEC-03 		Format: Online - approximately 819 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The art of Totopoly; Learning the hard knocks.(OPED)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Diana West, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

If, as John Seabrook writes in the New Yorker, American parents bought Erector sets and Monopoly because they believed they were prepping their kids to become builders or bankers, then the British parents who bought the horse-racing game Totopoly couldn't have been hoping for more (or less) than creating successive generations of trackside touts. Practically all that kept me from becoming a bookie, maybe, was the fact that my Totopoly-playing days, roughly 30 years ago, were limited to a single year spent as an American in Ireland.

Mr. Seabrook's point is that toys and games appearing before World War II - of which Totopoly, debuting in 1938, is one - appealed to parents. It was only...

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