What a great TR! I just love Oaks Park... I think it's the history of the place that does it for me.
Back in the early days Oaks has the whole gambit of great old rides. The Whip, a great old wood coaster (long since torn down) water slide into the Willamette river (wouldn't swim in there now unless you want to grow a 3rd eye) It was just a great trolley park.
It originally opened up as a competing attraction to the 1905 worlds fair and then had to compete against Council Crest Amusement park, Jantzen Beach amusement park and Lotus Isle Park. But Oaks is all that's left of those great old Oregon parks...It's a real Treasure.
Thanks Skylark!