Just a few miles south of Portland, on the Willamette River, sits the city’s only surviving amusement park, Oaks Park. It was built by the Oregon Water Power and Railway Company as an incentive to increase weekend ridership [and revenue]. Billed as the ‘Coney Island of the Northwest’, the park opened in 1905. Last week, on […]
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