Thanks to different websites, I was able to pin down the locations of the various streets on the original American Monopoly board.
Here’s the list of the streets in the American version with their correspondent counterparts in the German one:
GO
Mediterranean Ave: Badstraße
Baltic Ave: Turmstraße
Reading Railroad: Suedbahnhof
Oriental Ave: Chausseestraße
Vermont Ave: Elisenstraße
Connecticut Ave: Poststraße
JAIL
St Charles Place: Seestraße
States Ave: Hafenstrasse
Virginia Ave: Neue Strasse
Pennsylvania Railroad: Westbahnhof
St James Place: Muenchner Strasse
Tennessee Ave: Wiener Strasse
New York Ave: Berliner Strasse
FREE PARKING
Kentucky Ave: Theaterstrasse
Illinois Ave: Museumstrasse
Indiana Ave: Opernplatz
B&O Railroad: Nordbahnhof
Atlantic Ave: Lessingstrasse
Ventnor Ave: Schillerstrasse
Marvin Gardens: Goethestrasse
GO TO JAIL
Pacific Ave: Rathausplatz
North Carolina Ave: Hauptstrasse
Pennsylvania Ave: Bahnhofstrasse
Short Line Railroad: Hauptbahnhof
Park Place: Parkstrasse
Boardwalk: Schlossallee
GO
Nothing interesting there; most streets are named after landmarks (opera, musem, city hall, …), some after real cities (Vienna, Berlin) but nothing of real interest (I’ve heard the first German Monopoly, released in 1936 and banned by the Nazis short time later, used original Berlin street names. For the re-release after WWII, street names were “neutralized”. )
Prices were much higher than in the US version - $1 equalled DM 20 in the traditional German game, so the Schlossallee would cost DM 8000 while its American brother, boardwalk, is $400. After introduction of the euro, prices were adapted to US numbers.
So international dopers, if you have too much spare time and don’t know what to do, simply enrich this thread with information about yor national Monopoly board!
Here are the streets in the Swedish version:
GÅ
Västerlånggatan
Hornsgatan
Södra Station
Folkkungagatan
Götgatan
Ringvägen
FÄNGELSE
Sankt Eriksgatan
Elverket
Odengatan
Valhallavägen
Östra station
Sturegatan
Karlavägen
Narvavägen
Free parking
Strandvägen
Kungsträdgårdsgatan
Hamngatan
Centralstation
Vasagatan
Kungsgatan
Vattenledningsverket
Stureplan
GÅ I FÄNGELSE
Gustav Adolfs torg
Drottninggatan
Diplomatstaden
Norra station
Centrum
Norrmalmstorg
All the streets are named after streets in Stockholm. The cheapest street costs 1000 kronor and the most expensive (Norrmalmstorg) costs 8000 kronor.
Heh! Cool. OK, starting at -well- START!
I’ll do it all in Dutch. Might as well make it educational.
Ons Dorp (“Our Village”): DORPSSTRAAT) and BRINK
Station Zuid
Arnhem: STEENSTRAAT, KETELSTRAAT and VELPERPLEIN
Gevangenis
Haarlem: BARTELJORISSTRAAT, ZIJLWEG and HOUTSTRAAT
Station West
Utrecht: NEUDE, BILTSTRAAT and VREEBURG
Vrij Parkeren
Groningen: A-KERKHOF, GROOTE MARKT and HEERESTRAAT
Station Noord
Den Haag: SPUI, PLEIN and LANGE POTEN
Ga naar de gevangenis!
Rotterdam: HOFPLEIN, BLAAK and COOLSINGEL
Station Oost
Amsterdam: LEIDSCHESTRAAT and KALVERSTRAAT
I haven’t lived on any of the streets, but I do live in the most expensive city.
The french version use actual street names in paris. I only remember that the cheapest street is “rue de Belleville” and the more costly “rue de la Paix”
In the Finnish version, like in many others, the streets are real streets, in Helsinki. The most expensive street is Erottaja, but I can’t remember the least expensive.
“Mene suoraan vankilaan kulkematta lähtöruudun kautta”=go straight to jail without passing go.
UK (well, London; I’m sure I’ve seen an Edinburgh version):
Go
Old Kent Road
Community Chest
Whitechapel Road
Income Tax
Kings Cross Station
The Angel, Islington
Chance
Euston Road
Pentonville Road
Jail - Just visiting
Pall Mall
Electric Company
Whitehall
Northumberland Avenue
Marylebone Station
Bow Street
Marlborough Street
Vine Street
Free Parking
Strand
Fleet Street
Trafalgar Square
Fenchurch Street Station
Leicester Square
Coventry Street
Water Works
Piccadilly
Go to Jail
Regent Street
Oxford Street
Bond Street
Liverpool Street Station
Park Lane
Supertax
Mayfair
As students, my friends and I (known at the time as The Circle Of Beer) made a version with Cambridge colleges. Mayfair and Park Lane were Trinity and St John’s, I remember that much. I think the stations were popular town centre pubs. The houses were instead ‘pints’, and the hotels were ‘rounds’.
I know that in the Irish version, the equivalents of Park Place and the Boardwalk are Shrewsbury Road and Ailesbury Road (not necessarily in that order) in the posh Dublin neighbourhood of Ballsbridge. But that’s all I know about it.
Crusoe
Check out the UK travelling version of the game, I lost a couple of games badly due to the differances.
It has 2 sides of 11 spaces and 2 sides of 9 spaces and makes the Orange properties slightly less probability of being landed upon, though still the most often hit, and it makes the Reds and Yellows slightly better.
