Table hockey (Munro)

Go to http://www.oldtimegames.ca to read more about this replica of Canada's famous Munro table hockey game that was invented in Toronto in the early 1930s by Donald Munro. Munro, out of a job due to the Great Depression, was looking for a way to support his family, and built the first game in the basement of his home. (In Atlantic City, about the same time, Charles Darrow, also unemployed, was inventing Monopoly on his kitchen table.) Mrs. Munro and neighbors crocheted the red and green nets and the Munro sons delivered the games, wrapped in newspaper,by street car to the T.Eaton Company department store. The game, consructed of wood with wire controls and using a ball-bearing "puck", evolved over the years and in 1954 was replaced by the now familiar rod hockey game (a Swedish invention). We also sell replicas of Munro's table baseball game. It was manufactured in the early 1940s during World War II. The game was endorsed by Babe Ruth.

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• hockey
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• darrow

[nerf969]

wow much different  from the rod hockey i have