Editing Atlantic City, New Jersey (section)

===''Monopoly''===
Atlantic City (sometimes referred to as "Monopoly City"<ref name="Monopoly"/>) has become well-known over the years for its portrayal in the U.S. version of the popular board game ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]'', in which properties on the board are named after locations in and near Atlantic City. While the original incarnation of the game did not feature Atlantic City, it was in Indianapolis that Ruth Hoskins learned the game, and took it back to Atlantic City.<ref>{{cite book|last=Walsh|first=Tim|title=The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys|publisher=Keys Publishing|year=2004|isbn=0-9646973-4-3|page=48}}</ref> After she arrived, Hoskins made a new board with Atlantic City street names, and taught it to a group of friends, who ultimately passed in on to [[Charles Darrow]], who made some modifications to the game and claimed it as his own invention.<ref>Ecenbarger, Bill. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160102181337/http://articles.philly.com/2009-05-31/news/24985378_1_philip-e-orbanes-landlord-s-game-board-game "How to improve a property is the story of Monopoly"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', May 31, 2009. Accessed September 23, 2016. "In the summer of 1929, Ruth Hoskins, a Quaker schoolteacher from Indianapolis, moved to Atlantic City, where she introduced the game to her new friends – and made a version using Atlantic City street names. Friends then showed the game to Charles E. Todd, a Philadelphia hotel manager, who passed it on to an acquaintance named Charles Darrow, who soon was playing it in Philadelphia.... Darrow refined the game and then claimed he'd invented it."</ref> The relative prices of the places on the board reflect to some extent the social status of neighborhoods at the time, with wealthy white streets being worth more, and streets where Black and Asian residents lived being cheaper.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pilon|first=Mary|date=2021-02-21|title=The Prices on Your Monopoly Board Hold a Dark Secret|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/racism-your-monopoly-board/618098/|access-date=2021-02-21|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}</ref>

Marvin Gardens, the leading yellow property on the board, is actually a misspelling of the original location name, "[[Marven Gardens]]". The misspelling was said to have been introduced by Charles Todd and passed on when his home-made ''Monopoly'' board was copied by Charles Darrow and thence Parker Brothers. It was not until 1995 that Parker Brothers acknowledged this mistake and formally apologized to the residents of Marven Gardens for the misspelling, although the spelling error was not corrected.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030219192611/http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/monopoly/ Monopoly, Present at the Creation], [[NPR]], backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of February 19, 2003. Accessed June 23, 2016.</ref>

Some of the actual locations that correspond to board elements have changed since the game's release. Illinois Avenue was renamed [[Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (Atlantic City)|Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard]] in the 1980s. St. Charles Place no longer exists, as the [[Showboat Casino Hotel]] was developed where it once ran.<ref>Kennedy, Rod. [https://books.google.com/books?id=s38_PtWbxR0C ''Monopoly: the story behind the world's best-selling game''], p. 35, text by Jim Waltzer. [[Gibbs Smith]], 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah. {{ISBN|9781586853228}}. Accessed June 23, 2016.</ref>

The "Short Line" is believed to refer to the [[Atlantic City and Shore Railroad|Shore Fast Line]], a [[tram|streetcar line]] that served Atlantic City,<ref>Kennedy (2004); p. 23.</ref> or a bus route.<ref name=NYT1997/> The [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad|B&O Railroad]] did not serve Atlantic City. A booklet included with the reprinted 1935 edition states that the four railroads that served Atlantic City in the mid-1930s were the [[Central Railroad of New Jersey|Jersey Central]], the [[Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines|Seashore Lines]], the [[Reading Company|Reading Railroad]], and the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]].{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

The actual "Electric Company" and "Water Works" serving the city are the [[Atlantic City Electric Company]] and the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, respectively.<ref name=NYT1997>Kent, Bill. [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/nyregion/pass-go-collect-millions.html "Pass Go, Collect Millions"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 6, 1997. Accessed December 22, 2022. "The Railroads: The Short Line was a bus line, not a railroad. Of the Monopoly railroads, only the Pennsylvania Reading did come to Absecon Island, as did the Camden & Atlantic.... Utilities: The Electric Company, based in Pleasantville, jolts enough juice into the animated signs in front of the Trump Plaza and Caesars parking garages each use enough electricity to power a small South Jersey town. The Water Works is the Atlantic County Municipal Utilities Authority, which regularly wins awards for the purity of its water."</ref>