Oaks Amusement Park celebrates 105 years with classic carousel

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

While the planners at the Portland Electric Power Company — the City’s pioneer trolley line operator a century ago — hoped that an amusement park at Oaks Bottom would attract riders and land development, they probably didn’t guess that their Oaks Amusement Park would still be going strong 105 years later. Now run by the nonprofit Oaks Park Association, this family attraction celebrated its birthday on June 6th by taking the wraps off its fully-restored 1920’s-era Spillman Menagerie Carousel.

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