Recreation in the Past

Oakland (ME) Area Historical Society

Oakland In The Past

School Activities and Recreation

OHS Basketball 1919	OHS Basketball 1919	OHS Football 1919
WHS Band 1948	WHS Baseball 1937	WHS Basketball 1928
WHS Basketball 1948	WHS Basketball Schedule	WHS Majorettes 1946
WHS Orchestra 1938		WHS Senior Play 1948

Recreation Near The Lakes

Blake's Island Picnic	Clement's Camps
East Pond	North Pond Camps

Various Types of Recreation Around Town

Baseball about 1900	Baseball about 1900	Cascade Park located north of present KMD near the intersection of Country Club Road.
Cascade Park built by Central Maine Power as an attraction on the street railway	Cascade Park	Cascade Park
Central Maine Fairgrounds located roughly where the Seton Hospital is now located	Central Maine Fair Midway	Concert, Memorial Hall
Oakland Boy, owner unknown	Musicians 1st row, George Wilson, Bart Hallett, Isaac Dyer; 2nd row, Jess Blake, Will Blake and Fred Pullen	Oakland Cadets 1890
Oakland Skating Rink Ernest Foster an Glen Blake	Oakland Theater junction of Water (left) and Main (right), successively, Food for Thought restaurant, Aubuchon Hardware, now Oakland Furniture	"Tramp Chair" invented by Sanford Baker of Oakland, to "house" the indigent until they could be physically removed to another town.

World War I Homecoming Parade

	This was the largest parade in Oakland's history -- it has probably never been equaled. In the summer of 1919, after most of the men had returned home, Oakland hosted them at the parade and at a magnificent banquet in Memorial Hall

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