October 30th, 2003
In some brash decision to annoy everyone, Donna, Katherine, Jeremy and I went out to Astoria, OR to see the Goonies house today. In our defense the original plan was to go to Seattle, but I don’t think Donna’s car would make it that far and it barely got us around once we’d reached the coast.
In all the illicit excitement of being there (cause we’d promised so many people not to go without them), I somehow forgot to take a digital photo of us standing in front of the house. I think I took a film shot, but it will have to wait. Like seeing any movie location in real life, it was a little disappointing. Plus is was very sunny and clear today, the exact opposite of the film. If you’re interested in Goonies location scavenger hunting, definitely check out this site.
It was actually a very cute town and I picked up a book at the chamber of commerce that told us how to track down the other locations of Astoria-shot films. Some titles include: Kindergarten Cop, Short Circuit, Some Kind of Paradise and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3. Not bad for a tiny town that contained the smallest JC Penneys I’ve ever seen.
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