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the objects I have in front of me come from the very first collection I
curated
which was the toys and games in sports uh... and that was when i was
just us small little
associate curator
i worked my way up
and
I thought that it was kind of cool that I got to
to work but what collection unfortunate part is that that's not collection we
see very much
when we do it for this so
i tried to talk about those whenever i get a chance in one of the first things
i learned was that
story of the game of life
i play the game of life when i was a kid supplement
best teams ever but i didn't really understand its origin the origin really
dates back to the eighteen sixties
when milton bradley first out of his game company he was on the phone with
her
npm
decided he wanted to
put out a game but in the eighteen sixties in very puritan
new england
he would play games
that was not a good thing
unless there is some sort of moral
lesson to be learned that would be would be the only way we would
played games and you can sixties because otherwise it's considered gambling
cell milton-bradley king of the game called checker game of life we actually
have to
upton here which is really great fortunate for us in this collection
and they're very
difficulty sleep because that someone
but um... in each instance it's the checker game of life and the board opens
up and he built it
as if it were checkerboard
so
uh... i don't think that's very visible
why didn't that saddam it's it looks like jack report
and whatnot bradley did was he alternated
good spaces ten
immoral stay and moral and immoral spaces like this is what you say so you
can either land or matrimony
or gambling and moral
and he worked her way out to arm
happy old age
spot that was your ending spot in the bathroom or anything you want to gain
four years later is that
people are not brown we're trying to find a way to
celebrate that anniversary they looked back and they work hard to look back to
very early stage of the company and they found this checker game of life
and i thought they would be really interesting
now
to a game that
looks act the way like this today
in nineteen sixty seven
it would have been an opportunity to look at
a whole different
way up both playing games and what life was like
so we got a game of life in nineteen sixties
the game and i remember art linkletter endorses that big-name big thing
remarks on
the game of up
the century i guess you what mike said
and this game as we all remember had a lot of plastic it was so
very popular because it was very colorful and
you could have they'd be significant
you were cooked politician they were all these
ups and downs in life it really mirror that
since then i think it's really pulled out this game that i think
really tells us a lot about com
trial heard and how we
get to uh...
that the notion of
but sometimes games are still learning processes is that over the course of
time from nineteen sixty
this game of life
it was done in the nineteen eighties
there's another person in the nineteen ninety-six keep updating it to make it
seem like its
narrowing
he could still gamble in the nineteen sixties game
impure there's not much you want me to see what kids learn in kind stuff so
yet each time the values over here so there's still that sense of moral
decency in all three of the games at and follows
so i just think the cure to really we get to look at stuff like this that
makes sense
fedex lighting we control that
between society as as we know important troop classes and trying to understand
what needs to carry over trying to do that material culture popular culture
more important uh...
theoretical
parts of the to the uh... issue curator ship one of things into a course we can
actually used
objects
and make that point and waiting kids would get
which put came out there so that's not one of my favorite objects