Post #795425 by HotelCharlieEcho on Thu, May 30, 2019 9:09 AM

Not sure how helpful this is, but there's a whole thread around coconut monkeys here: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=16376&forum=5. Some of the posts in that thread push the phenomenon back to the 1930s (but no indication I saw of when they started popping up in movies or tropical-themed bars).

There is some evidence coconut monkeys were appearing in tropical-themed bars by no later than 1953, if the provenance around the photos I posted in this thread is accurate: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=52658&forum=2&13. That said, I suspect (based on no evidence other than my own hunch) they appeared in tropical bars much earlier than that.

Edit: Thanks Scott for the assist with the link!

[ Edited by: HotelCharlieEcho 2019-06-04 11:47 ]