Fairground Stall Games

Linking with the entry about the Fairground Pierrots, this game is another I remember from Blackpool Pleasure Beach and elsewhere from the 1950s and 1960s.

It was a simple enough idea - the player rolled a number of balls down the gently sloping playfield, either falling into a hole with a corresponding score, or hitting the base board at the bottom and scoring nothing.

Scores were added up by the operator and you won whatever that score merited. Normally "anything off the bottom row" unless you played again, adding your win credits together until you had enough for the covetted teddy bear or whatever off the top row!

Pulling back to view the entire photograph, it can be seen that this was taken of a stall selling old fairground equipment and "penny slots".

I took the photo in November 1995 at the Jukebox Madness Show in Hounslow. Ages since I went to one of those shows. High time we went to another!