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Amusement Parks and Commercial Entertainment

Adams, Judith. The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Trills. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.

DeBlassio, Donna. “The Immigrant and the Trolley Park in Youngstown, Ohio, 1899-1945.” Rethinking History. 5, no. 1 (2001): 75.

Kasson, John. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.

---------------. “Urban Audiences and the Organization of Entertainment in the late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. 14, no. 1 (1985): 3.

Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Portland History

Johnston, Robert D. The Radical Middle Class, Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Labosier, James Bruce. Motion Picture Exhibition and the Development of a Middle-Class Clientele: Portland, Oregon, 1894-1915. Masters Thesis, Portland State University, 1995.

Lansing, Jewel. Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2003.

MacColl, E. Kimbark with Harry H. Stein. Merchants, Money and Power: The Portland Establishment, 1843-1913. Portland: The Georgian Press, 1988.

Moynihan, Ruth Barnes. Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Myers, Gloria E. A Municipal Mother: Portland’s Lola Green Baldwin, America’s First Policewoman. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1995.

Oaks Park History

Aalberg, Bryan. “Oaks Amusement Park” Oregon Historical Quarterly. 104 no.2 (2003): 252.

Bracher, Frederick. “How it was Then: The Pacific Northwest in the Twenties.” Oregon Historical Quarterly. 85 no. 2 (1984): 173.

Throckmorton, Harold L. The Interurbans of Portland, Oregon, A Historical Geography. Masters Thesis, University of Oregon, 1962.

Related links Links

PdxHistory.com: A website full of Portland ephemera and history.

Portland Police Museum: Portland Police Historical Society's website

Oaks Amusement Park: The website of the Oaks Park Association

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