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the private residence in
Uppertown appeared in the
movie — the historic Flavel
House Museum and county
jail, for example — and are
prepared for a crush of visi-
tors, Reid said .
In a Facebook post , the
chamber asked visitors to be
respectful and not go to the
iconic home that appeared in
the movie.
“Attendees of the event
(and visitors coming any
time of the year) are asked to
help us solve the overcrowd-
ing affecting the residents in
this small neighborhood,” the
chamber wrote.
The chamber plans to post
staff in the neighborhood
— not for traffi c control —
but to direct people to other
areas where they can view the
house, and back to the Ore-
gon Film Museum and cham-
ber offi ces.
“Really, it’s just a matter
of having a friendly face there
and helping people under-
stand why they should start
at the fi lm museum and at
the chamber,” Reid told The
Astorian. “On this particular
weekend, because we know
there’s going to be a surge, it
makes sense to have someone
physically there.”
If their presence itself
becomes an issue, or they
are not seeing much traffi c
through the neighborhood,
chamber staff will leave, Reid
said.
The private residence has
probably seen more versions
of the “T ruffl e S huffl e” than
the movie’s director, Rich-
ard Donner, ever witnessed
during fi lming . Traffi c prob-
lems and confl icts between
fans and the neighborhood
reached a breaking point in
2015 following the 30-year
anniversary .
In the years since, resi-
dents have lodged numerous
complaints with the Astoria
City Council and the Asto-
ria Police Department about
fans who park illegally, loiter
in the streets and leave trash
behind in their efforts to walk
up and see the house, located
on a dead-end road.
Last year, hoping to curb
problem behavior, city coun-
cilors enacted a $100 parking
fi ne in the neighborhood. Pre-
vious “no stopping” and “no
parking” signs had not had
much of an effect .
As far as Police Chief
Geoff Spalding knows, his
offi cers have not had to issue
any hefty tickets .
“There’s a general sense
of more compliance,” he said.
But, he added, “we’re just get-
ting into Goonies season.”
‘WE’RE JUST
GETTING INTO
GOONIES
SEASON.’
Police Chief
Geoff Spalding
The city will likely have
a better sense of how much
the parking fi ne deters peo-
ple after this weekend and as
summer tourism ramps up .
City
Councilor
Jes-
samyn West, who represents
the east side neighborhood
that includes the Goonies
House, reached out to Spal-
ding and the chamber ahead
of Goonies Day events, ask-
ing about plans to deter visi-
tors from trying to access the
house.
“I think the Goonies week-
end is great and I encour-
age Goonies visitors to have
a wonderful time,” she said,
“but of course my priority is
the privacy of the constituents
in that neighborhood. Ideally,
both can happen.”
In its Facebook post, the
chamber directed fans to
alternative locations, such as
a Historic Oregon Film Trail
sign on the Astoria Riverwalk
near 35th Street. From that
spot, people can look up to the
hills and see both Astor Ele-
mentary, the school featured
in the 1990 fi lm “Kindergar-
ten Cop,” and the Goonies
House .
Or, the chamber suggested,
people can visit the Oregon
Film Museum, Clatsop Coun-
ty’s historic jailhouse that
appeared in ”The Goonies.”
But the usual comments
— accompanied by grimac-
ing emojis — followed the
post.
“If you don’t want movie
fans coming to your house,
don’t buy a house that was
used in a famous movie!!”
one woman wrote, echoing
a frequent opinion voiced by
Goonies fans online.
Others suggested turning
the house into a museum or
some kind of public space,
while still others rejoined
that it is a private home and
the entire neighborhood, not
just the homeowner, suffers
from the impact — a form of
fan self-policing Reid found
encouraging.
“Does anyone else see the
irony of some of these com-
ments?” one woman wrote.
“The plot of the movie we
love is about saving their
neighborhood from corporate
greed and keeping it a place
for them to live. Yet in real
life, some fans of the movie
are saying to sell it and make
a profi t on it so it can be an
attraction … which would kill
the neighborhood that is the
Goondocks.”
In the movie , which was
released on June 7, 1985, a
villain Mr. Perkins, “the rich-
est man in Astoria,” plans
to buy up the working-class
neighborhood and build a golf
course .
“If you really believe in
saving the Goondocks, that
means save the neighbor-
hood, keep it as a place for
people to live peacefully,” the
woman added. “Don’t be a
Mr. Perkins.”
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