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Despite its size, Astoria has seen its fair share of industry it's the oldest American settlement west of the Rockies, after all. Founded as a fur-trading post, it subsequently became the center of the country's commercial salmon industry and home to the Bumble Bee tuna factory. The Bumble Bee factory closed down in the s, however, forcing Astoria to reinvent itself yet again. With the impending "Goonies" sequel , now is a great time to visit this resilient little spot.

The Astoria Column is a perfect place to get a bird's-eye view of the whole town and the coast and take it all in. Cannon beach, with the famous "Goonies" rocks, is a short drive from Astoria.

It's incredibly wide, perfect for long walks, wading in and out of shallow pools and gazing at the formations jutting out of the sea that helped the Goonies on their treasure hunt. Sandi Preston, from her home in California, prayed for the Goonies house. She loved The Goonies so much she prayed for four years after visiting Astoria the first time, until the house inhabited by One-Eyed-Willie true-believer Mikey Walsh finally came up for sale.

To get there, you follow the Goonies parking arrows away from the house to the mildly disheveled John Jacob Astor Elementary on 38th Street—everything in Goonieville is disheveled, because the beach air does grim work—and then walk three blocks uphill to a sign that says "Private Drive: Goonies on Foot Welcomed.

It is the second such sign: The first was stolen almost immediately after being planted, and so the current version is plunged into heavy concrete. On warm days, the sidewalks up and down 38th Street fill with the faithful, gawking at a wealth of no-trespassing signs, and signs asking visitors that they please, dear Lord, not block the driveway.

An older man walks out to fetch his newspaper and eyes a family of six pushing a stroller uphill. On our visit, Preston's handlebar-mustached husband, John, was replacing the front steps. The Goondocks house, including the attic, will be open for public tours on The Goonies 30th anniversary weekend, June You will be welcomed on foot, but not with your shoes on.

Data's filmic home is owned by the same family, the Fullers, who once also owned Mikey's house next door. The massive house is still blue as a Windows homescreen, still technically within zipline distance of Mikey's, and still owned by the Fuller family—split now between heirs Lloyd and Catherine.

Every now and then, somebody shows up at the Oregon Film Museum and sadly asks to bail out his cousin. It used to be the jail, and people who've been locked up have very long memories. The real jail is now across the street. As a museum, it's only 5 years old—created just in time for Astoria's 25th anniversary Goonies celebration. Within, there are jail cells, a video about Kindergarten Cop , and a series of scenes you can re-create while filming yourself with digital cameras—the car scene from The Goonies , something-something Free Willy , and something-something from Cthulhu.

It is a museum based less on artifacts, and more on nostalgia itself. In the film, Mikey's dad is assistant curator at an unnamed museum. This, as it turns out, is the actual Flavel House Museum, named after heroic sandbar pilot Capt. George Flavel, who was hailed by newspapers in the late 19th century as a "grave, saturnine, sphinx; sour, dour, cold and crabbed, turning to gold all he touched without a friend and suspicious of all. He was also one of Astoria's first millionaires.

He married his year-old sweetheart at the age of 30—which was considered normal—but scandalized the township by installing the region's first indoor toilet. Today, the home is beautiful but oddly haunted, arranged as if the family had only just now escaped in a hurry, leaving children's books strewn about the bed, the closet door ajar, and a bird carefully preserved under glass. Meanwhile, the family's descendants all moved into a different Flavel house that was finally auctioned off last December.

Derelict and in ruin, it had stood vacant for the 24 years since owner "Hatchet" Harry Flavel stabbed a man in the abdomen and fled the state. He was finally arrested, months later in Pennsylvania, after stealing towels from a motel. The midcentury Lower Columbia Bowl, which now offers free soda refills to Oregon Lottery players, is the bowling alley where Chunk witnessed "the most amazing thing I ever saw," out the window—the prison-break car chase by the Fratelli brothers that begins the movie.

The window view contains a McDonald's sign not visible onscreen: This was covered up by the pizza slice Chunk smeared against the window. He couldn't get the pizza in the right spot to block the sign. The alley now has a little shrine where Chunk once stood—although they've actually raised the floor three feet—with a thick guest book signed by hundreds from around the country and world, from England to Australia to Niger.

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