Oakland, California - Children's Fairyland

Address:: 699 Bellevue Ave., Oakland, CA
Directions:: I-580 to Grand Ave., then west to Bellevue Ave. and the Park, on the left.
Hours:: Daily 10 am-4 pm, weather permitting (Call to verify)
Phone:: 510-452-2259

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Oakland, California - Children's Fairyland

I was pleased to find the ORIGINAL kid's storyland/fairyland in Oakland, in Lake Merrit Park. According to their site, it was "created in 1950 as America's first three-dimensional storybook theme park." The day I was there, mobs of four-year-olds accompanied by frantic adults were walking toward it chanting "FAI-REE-LAN! FAI-REE-LAN!" in a manner reminiscent of zombies in the Dawn of The Dead films. I could not go in as I had no kid with me, but I could see through the fence. Unlike the attraction in New Orleans, this one had animals (And the entrance is a topiary dragon. Very nice.) [Flatus Maximus, 05/30/2004]

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November 25, 2009