Is coconut shy still played at fairs

[happypalms]

I was wondering if anywhere the game coconut shy is still played in twentieth century or has it just become a game of the past?

[bubba]

Happy,

Can you give a brief summary of the game? Not familiar with the term.

[PalmatierMeg]

Agree. We need details

[Silas_Sancona]

1 hour ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Agree. We need details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_shy

[bubba]

Thank you!

[Kim]

So now I know what it is, but I have never come across the game with coconuts. I've seen games where you throw things, but nothing with coconuts as part of the game.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Can’t still be played in the 20th century since we are now living in the 21st.  

[Palmarum]

8 hours ago, happypalms said:

I was wondering if anywhere the game coconut shy is still played in twentieth century or has it just become a game of the past?

Some of the carnivals and Renaissance festivals here play games similar to it. I don't see the use of coconuts though.

Ryan

[happypalms]

36 minutes ago, Jim in Los Altos said:

Can’t still be played in the 20th century since we are now living in the 21st.  

So Buck Roger’s must   be playing it then with twiggy on the spaceship 🤣

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Agree. We need details

Wikipedia has brief description I guess its a pretty basic game 

[happypalms]

16 minutes ago, Palmarum said:

Some of the carnivals and Renaissance festivals here play games similar to it. I don't see the use of coconuts though.

Ryan

I don’t ever think it was one game played in Australia at the fairs maybe the softball and 3 tin cans is all we ever had 

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, Kim said:

So now I know what it is, but I have never come across the game with coconuts. I've seen games where you throw things, but nothing with coconuts as part of the game.

It may have originated in Europe or an old English game 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Agree. We need details

I did read about I think in an old back issue of a IPS magazine many moons ago 

[peachy]

I remember them mentioned in children's books when I was a kid. It was very much a Pommy thing from the days when their kids got an apricot in their christmas stockings.  It was just a row of skinny stakes with a coconut balanced on top of each stake. Participants paid a penny and shied (yes that is the verb) a ball to knock a coconut down. If their shies hit one and it fell, the coconut was their prize. It was a rare and exotic treat back then.   I have to acknowledge the late Enid Blyton for my ability to enlighten the colonials.

Peachy

[David B]

Common at fairs in NZ in the 60s n70s (20th century)

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, David B said:

Common at fairs in NZ in the 60s n70s (20th century)

That’s good news I have never seen it in Australia in my area did you ever play the game? 

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, peachy said:

I remember them mentioned in children's books when I was a kid. It was very much a Pommy thing from the days when their kids got an apricot in their christmas stockings.  It was just a row of skinny stakes with a coconut balanced on top of each stake. Participants paid a penny and shied (yes that is the verb) a ball to knock a coconut down. If their shies hit one and it fell, the coconut was their prize. It was a rare and exotic treat back then.   I have to acknowledge the late Enid Blyton for my ability to enlighten the colonials.

Peachy

Thanks peachy I do remember reading about it in a old back issue magazine from IPS or PACSOA magazine either way it’s amazing to think a coconut was a prize a bit like the story behind the cocodemer with the sailors wanting the seed history and palms have a strong link and I see you where a Famous Five fan hey Enid Blyton books 

Richard 

[Kim]

I can understand the coconut being a prize before air travel was common. Reminds me of this scene from the film Victoria & Abdul: 

 

[happypalms]

15 hours ago, Kim said:

I can understand the coconut being a prize before air travel was common. Reminds me of this scene from the film Victoria & Abdul: 

 

The good old days when things where simple but other simple things where regarded as something fit  for a king or queen palms have long link with history