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By Barbara Beznos, RDILDIN
Integrated Nutrition, LLC

JEWFRO

Dear

The Game Of Huntington Woods

Lately,

I find

about

myself talking less
why I don't live in certain

Detroit, Bloomfield Hills,
places
New York, Oz
and more about why
I do live in Huntington Woods.
We've called "The Woods" home for
eight years (an eternity to my nomad­
ic friends, scarcely a long weekend for
some of my neighbors) and there are
now four generations of us here.
I may come across as a booster. At
least to my neighbors, who are mov­
ing (reluctantly) after living here just a
few years and so bequeathed to me a
treasure chest they discovered in their
attic: The Game of Huntington Woods.
Officially, the board game is called
Wheeler Dealer, "a fast-paced, action­
packed game of skill, strategy and
the 'I uck of the dice; where two to
six players wheel'n' deal their way
around their own town, buy up, trad­
ing & selling local business properties
that actually exist:'

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They actually actually

exist(ed): Michael Glenn

I've shown the game to
has suggested we play.

Dear Readers:

Perhaps the similarity trig­

Many individuals have
nutritional problems and

gers PMSD (Post-Monopo­
ly Stress Disorder).
The game was com­

missioned

at

$1 O/set, by

Recent efforts have outfitted us with
rolling 64-gallon recycle bins and a
new elementary school
playground.
Nor can I tell exactly when this
version of the game was produced,

partly because Glenn wrote the
original Wheeler Dealer copyright in
impossible-to-decode Ro­

Numerals (MCMLXXX!
1890? 198 AD? Adult-Rated
1950?). The game certainly
had longevity; everyone
knows Dundas'Sesqui­

man

According to board­
gamegeek.com, alternative

for Wheeler Dealer
include the Game of Iqa­
luit (in Canada's Nunavut
Territory); the Game(s) of
Naperville, Sedona, Little
Rock; The Sesquicentennial Game of
Dundas (Minnesota) and Missouri's

venues

Chesterfieldopoly.

Wheeler Dealer is not Monopoly.
I know that because it says so, not
because I've played it. I haven't played
it for a few reasons. First, my set is in

mint condition, and I'm not going to
let my kids ruin it like they ruin all my

are

extensive.

example: "If a player

lands
on B3 and rolls a 4, and the owner of
B3 owns all the B's (and none are 'debt
ridden'), the player landing on B3
would owe the owner 4 X 600 X 4 X 10
$96,000 [of more than $2.5 million
in the set]:'
Third, I have seen too many movies
(two is too many) where a dusting off
of a mysterious board game causes
the play to turn into real life with

=

noisy consequences. Also,

doing

centennial

no one

was

in 2007. A

newspaper clipping in the
box has no date, though
the lede
"Forget about
those hard to get Cabbage

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Patch dolls"
suggests
was in the materialistic
mid-1980s.ln any case, the
game offers a reminder
that the city has had both
faced uncertainty and
demonstrated durability over the
past 30 years.

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it

Huntington Woods wrestled, in
particular, with 1-696, the Walter P.
Reuther Freeway, for years. In the
Game of Huntington Woods, a player
landing on the Interstate 696 corner
(like Free Parking or Go to Jail, de­
pending on whom you ask) must "put
down a payment on new house. Pay

to Bank

2,000 times the roll of one
die OR 25 percent of all your cash on
hand
whichever is more, and move
immediatelyTOTHE PARK:'
The Park is the "Detroit Zoological
Park" (the game's GO corner). While
I am not familiar with anyone dis­
placed from the 10 Mile corridor
moving into the Zoo, I'm not going to
risk it by rolling the dice.
Easy as it is to point to bygone
businesses (Pub 1881, Billings Feed
Store, Friend Catering, Weber Broth-

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some

form of action

and not just

community fundraising.

near and
with local businesses
occupying the squares
around the board.

preventative,

can

curative and

restorative. It is all about

tion of concerted, creative

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One short

be

optimistic. Rimshot!
Even for a pessimist, it
follows that Huntington
Woods has a long tradi­

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toys.
Second, the rules

health. This education

not

custom versions for many

municipalities

prevent disease and promote

Huntington

Woods. It isn't clear if the
club is still active, but I'm

in his (I assume) basement
in Allen Park and made

find

them difficult to manage.
Good Nutrition can help

fund raiser,
the Opti­

as a

mist Club of

designed Wheeler Dealer

far

Barb,

What can you
contribute to
the Health and
Well- Being Issue
coming out?

ers

Greenhouses), I'm more inclined
staying power of some of

talking about
making changes. It is about
discarding old habitual habits.

to note the

local haunts. Contrast National
Bank of Detroit
"One of America's
Great Banks;' which merged with First
National, then merged with Bank
One, which was then purchased by

our

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with Durst Lum­
JPMorgan Chase
ber holding off Home Depot. Lincoln
Drugs keeps answering the phone at
(248) U-DRUGS. And Armitage Colli­
sion can only have benefitted from
the invention of text messaging.

Therefore everyone has the
capacity to enhance their own

health.

Eating

too much or

too little can have

an

effect

on

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All the same, I wish we hadn't said
see ya later to
Alligator Alley ("Family
Arcade") and that Roberto's Putts 'N'
Round was still putzing around.

As noted on the game board, Ron
Gillham was an Optimist Club mem­
ber in the 1980s. He has made his way
around the board a few times since
then. Until the next election when he
steps down from the unpaid position,
he will hold his claim as being the

longest-standing mayor in Michigan.
Ironically, one main difference from
Monopoly is that Wheeler Dealer

doesn't involve houses, Huntington
Woods' stock-in-trade. From my
seat on the Zoning Board of Ap­

peals "Negligible power corrupts
I can see the care and
negligibly"
craftsmanship that go into building
and renovating in this, the (self-pro­
claimed) City of Homes.
In another 30 years, we will prob­
ably be looking back at, albeit not
in board-game form, the one-in-

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320-year storm of 2014, when Sam's

Market became

or

a

gastropub and/

pilates studio, and when

crept up

M-l Rail

to 11 Mile.

And I mean "we;' since most folks
here don't seem to have any plans

those who must, let me
know if you find anything in your
attic.

to move. For

functions.

body
Inconsistency
in timing of eating, one's
personal choices, or even

medication side effects may
disrupt the quality of one's
well being.

A critical component of eating
correctly is being active in self

care.

Part of self

range

or

care

is one's

span of nutritional

knowledge ,which hopefully,
will contribute to improve
one's long term health and
emotional and physical
well- being.

Barbara Beznos
Registered Dietitian
Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist (FL)

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