Postcards · September 30, 2025

I visited Oaks Amusement Park during the off-season, when the rides stood silent and the midway belonged to fallen leaves instead of screaming children. That unexpected quiet revealed one of Portland’s most beloved landmarks—a trolley park that has survived floods, changing tastes, and more than a century of determined local affection.

Postcards · July 17, 2025

We got lost looking for the Fondation Louis Vuitton and stumbled into something stranger: Paris’s 19th-century Jardin d’Acclimatation. Once home to exotic animals and ethnographic exhibitions, today it’s a gently worn amusement park where peacocks roam and children eat cotton candy. In Paris, even the midways have history.