Game, Board: Game of Health, Coca-Cola Company of Canada, LtD, 1934

Object/Artifact

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Goulbourn Museum

Name/Title

Game, Board: "Game of Health," Coca-Cola Company of Canada, LtD, 1934

Entry/Object ID

989.6.41

Description

Board game "prepared and Distributed" by the Coca-Cola Company of Canada, LtD, copyright 1934. Made in Canada for over 28 years.100 squares taking players from waking in the morning to bedtime at day's end with bonus squares to move ahead & penalty squares to send the players back all with health related hints. ("Slept with windows open, go ahead" , "sat down to lunch table with dirty hands, go back"). Back of the game board lists 10 Aids, 6 health & foods important to a good diet finishing with the claim that carbonated beverages are good for you and that "Coco-cola" is a pure & wholesome carbonated beverage, made of pure ingredients in spotlessly clean sanitary plants, which are given the highest rating by health departments.

Made/Created

Date made

1934

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Game, Board

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Game

Nomenclature Class

Game Equipment

Nomenclature Category

Category 09: Recreational Objects

Search Terms

Game, Games, Board Games, Board Game, Children, Recreation, Health, Coke, Coca-Cola

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Board game, Informational, Game

Dimensions

Height

42.9 cm

Width

43.7 cm

Material

paper - papier