Listen 2:46 This guy spent 3 years making a Monopoly-like boardgame about Venice

Mark Rago has lived in Venice for more than 25 years. He kept waiting for someone to make a Monopoly version of the historic beach community, in the well-trodden footsteps of Long Beach, Laguna Beach or Oxnard . Even Irvine , a city at a relatively tender age of 54, has its own homespun version of the game.

So in 2022, Rago took it upon himself to distill the 120 years worth of Venice's history into Venice-opoly . After spending three years on this passion project, the new game will have its official launch on Saturday, Nov. 8, at Venice Heritage Museum.

 "It was hard to get everything included because there's so much history of Venice," Rago said.

Founded in 1905, the leg

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