![]() Thus my mother never paid for this deck, but received it via flirting lol :) I have also not been able to verify this story through the Tezak's directly, which isn't surprising of course. so I suppose it is possible this deck may have come from one and the same Bob Tezak, of Joliet Illinois (perhaps they lived in the same apartment). She seems to remember the name of the man who gave it to her as being named "Bobby". She actually claims to have lived in an apartment complex where her and a girlfriend were socializing by the pool with other residents, and one of the residents claimed to have invented the game of UNO and proceeded to give her and her friend a deck. ![]() having come from my mother, who lived in Joliet at the time UNO found it's way there in the early 70's (1971). This deck has been in my family my entire life. Once the original green stock was worked through, IGI of Joliet changed the color to the more familiar red/black backing that the world knows today and re-worked parts of the game, launching it into the mega hit it has become. till they made their way to Tezak and Akeman in Joliet, Illinois, who bought the rights from the Robbins along with their original stock. They started to sell out of Robbin's barbershop in Ohio, and then spread locally as word caught on. The Story Behind This Particular Deck and Others Like It: Apparently Merle Robbins and family set out to print 5,000 decks (like this one), to begin selling their game of UNO they invented. of Joliet and marketed UNO with a new color backing (the black and red style most people recognize). They are from the original batch by the creator, Merle Robbins, before he sold the rights to Robert Tezak and Ed Akeman of Joliet, Illinois, who created International Games Inc. ![]() Those decks have a pea soup green, or khaki/olive green backing, with no registered trademark/etc on the card. ![]() from the original first decks invented by Merle Robbins. ![]()
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