300 Broadway Street suite 22 Seaside, OR , 97138-5949 Phone: (503) 738-6728 Website Few shopping malls have the attraction of the Seaside Carousel Mall: a full-sized indoor working carousel. The carousel features 22 animals with several of them not being horses, but instead cats eating fish, a giraffe and a pig. The carousel is based off a carousel the owners saw in San Francisco and the horses and other animals are taken down regularly for repainting and maintenance. Some of the shops in the mall are an old-time portrait studio, a soda fountain, a toy store, a leather store, and even a custom hat store. The mall also features several places to eat.
Hours of operation: Vary considerably by the season but are open Monday through Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the shortest time span. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas days. Check the website for the earliest and latest opening hours. Limited free parking on Broadway Street and Oceanway Street.
At the Caffe Latte store, 8 feet away from the Carousel, four penny books are for sale: Penny Passport $5.95, Elongated Coin Collector Album $3.95, United States Pressed Penny Collection book $6.00 and PennyCollector Oregon state book $5.95. There is no sales tax in Oregon.
A coin change machine is next to penny machine #2 and will dispense quarters from $1 or $5 bills.
Machine 3 is inside on the east side of the Carousel to the left. Cost to press: 51¢ each design. Designs all have a pennycollector.com beaded border with 'Seaside, Oregon':
1. (H) Starfish.
2. (V) Tillamook Head Lighthouse with 'Tillamook Rock Lighthouse'.
3. (V) Carousel horse facing right surrounded by stars with 'Carousel Mall'.
4. (H) Dungeness crab surrounded by tiny seashells.
Machine 2 (Placed 2015) is inside on the east side of the Carousel to the right. Cost to press: 51¢ each design. Designs all have a beaded border:
1. (V) Whale jumping up out of the ocean with 'The Oregon Coast'.
2. (V) Round carousel horse head logo with 'The Carousel Seaside Oregon'.
3. (V) Silhouette of Lewis and Clark with 'Lewis Clark Seaside Oregon'.
4. (H) Three birds flying around the sun setting on the ocean with 'Seaside, Oregon.
Machine 1 - Retired (Placed here in 2011 from World of Gifts) designs all had a beaded border with 'Seaside Oregon': 1. (V) Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, 2. (V) Seal on a rock, 3. (V) A silhouette with 'Lewis Clark', 4. (V) City of Seaside logo.
G.P.S. coordinates: Latitude: N45° 59' 36.4338" Longitude: W123° 55' 35.3526"
Google Maps coordinates: X3VF+CC Seaside, Oregon .
July 18, 2024. Both penny machines speed rolling well centered excellent images on 95% copper pre-82 pennies. MWHTH |