Checkers/Chess Game Board

Tucked in the back of this closet is the humble Checkers/Chess game board. This wooden board with painted black squares on it, provides an insight on the entertainment of the late 1880s. By that there was not much to do besides chores on the Front Range. The radio wasn’t invented until 1895, and the phonograph was invented a decade before but was still in its early stages of improvements and was quite rare. Leading for the most popular past times as community activities, such as church or drinking in saloons, board games, card games, and outdoor games such as marbles, shinny, and pom-pom pullaway, playing instruments, making crafts, or reading. The wear and tear of this board suggests that this board was well played with, or the parallel scratch marker makes could possibly suggest that this board was maybe use a cutting boards at one point.