Mt. Angel - The Glockenspiel

When looking up Oregon roadside attractions, one that often comes up is The Glockenspiel in Mt. Angel.

While The Glockenspiel is primarily a restaurant, the roadside attraction part is the clock tower that periodically (not hourly) plays music and has moving figures, evidently a tribute to the Rathaus-Glockenspiel in Munich.

You can view the workings of glockenspiel at 11 AM, 1 PM, 4 PM, and 7 PM daily.

The restaurant building is very attractive, and even when it is not running you can see a little boy and girl on a swing.

We got there at about 3:40 PM, and waited for the wooden shutters to open up and reveal the dancing characters.

I thought it was really stupid.

The characters revolve a little while music plays, and because the platform they are on rotates, you get to see all of them at one point or another.

But they weren't that beautiful or doing anything that interesting, and boy, that Indian was red!

Like, is racist representation better than erasure?

So when we got to the couple, and the man in the suit is holding an axe behind the woman, making it seem like he might murder her, that was as good as it got. I mean, you don't dress like that to chop wood; so she married an axe murderer?

Then for the big finale the swing came out a little bit while "Edelweiss" played. The guy in the suit without the murder weapon took center stage again, the windows closed, and I was glad we had done other things and had not driven out just to see that.

 I am generally good at appreciating things, but this time I was not impressed.

Can't win 'em all!

https://www.glockenspielrestaurant.net/