MAHS-- Part 6: Even More Board Games

McHenry Area Historical Society.

And, Pat Wirtz had even more board games on display.  I am writing down just some of the games he had with him.

The Puritan Game of My Wife and I (from 1888)

Fibber McGee & Molly (from the mid 1930s to mid-1950s)

Lindy  (Based on Charles Lindbergh's famous flight.

Touring  (started in 1906)

Steve Canyon  (based on a comic strip)

Flying Aces  (1946)

The most money he ever spent was $125 for the German WW II game.  (Or, at least that is what he said since his wife was there.  But, he said his wife knows  everything about his purchases.)

He also has some 40 shoe boxes full of postcards and a complete run of Life Magazine from 1932 to 1945 as he focuses on the World War II era.

He Sure Knows His Board Games.  --CootBoard

Something Worth Looking At: Life Magazine Photographs

From the November 20, 2008, Chicago Tribune "New life for huge Life photograph collection on Google" by Steve Johnson.

Including the date rape photo of the kissing sailor at the end of World Wat II."Suddenly one of the great treasure troves in history is available online, free, and even ready for your download and manipulation.  The Life magazine photos archive went up this week, hosted by Google www.images.google.com/hosted/life.

It is broken down by decades.  And, you are welcome to use them without all that copyright stuff.  You can crop hem the way you want and make your own 8-by-10 prints.  You just can't use them for commercial purposes.

However, not all of the 10 million images are on the Google site.  Life president Andrew Blau said, "To have the entire collection in a warehouse in Jersey City is not to the benefit of the photography."

I look forward to the day when any non-money-making effort can use any photo on the internet with no copyright problems.  But I would like for whomever made the photo to include their name or site at the bottom of the picture.

Definitely Worth a Look.  --Cooter