CAMELOT IN MAGAZINES

Following are examples of references to Camelot that appeared in print and electronic magazines.

Skip Maloney is a freelance writer for a variety of regional and national publications including GAMES Magazine and Knucklebones Magazine.  His specialty is the hobby of board gaming.  He is also a National Examiner for Examiner.com, a print and electronic magazine that serves 70 major markets across the country.  Skip’s home page is http://www.examiner.com/x-2590-Board-Game-Examiner .
   

The following article appeared in Skip’s “Board Game Examiner” column of June 18, 2009.  Skip has given his kind permission to allow it to be reprinted here.

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This picture of George S. Parker, inventor of Chivalry and Camelot, and his daughter, Sally, playing a game of Camelot, appeared in the October 6, 1945, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

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Camelot was featured on the cover of the first issue of Abstract Games Magazine.

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From a 1943 issue of Popular Science, woodturning plans for the construction of Camelot pieces.

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These two publications appeared in several magazines.  The one on the left, appearing throughout 1931, solicited participants for the 1931 Camelot Contest.  The one on the right announced the winners of that contest, and appeared in the April 2, 1932, issue of the Literary Digest.

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Pictured (on the left) is Jose Raul Capablanca, World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927. Grandmaster Capablanca, one of the five greatest chess players of all time, is playing Camelot with Bridge Hall of Famer Sidney Lenz, while bridge expert E.V. Shepard looks on. This photograph, believed to have appeared in a bridge publication of the time, was taken at the Contract Bridge Club in New York City on February 7, 1931, and is used with the gracious permission of the American Contract Bridge League.  You can learn more about the ACBL here.