![]() Data’s gadget-packed trench coat is in a cell. The museum may claim to be devoted to the entire state – marquee posters tout movies such as The Black Stallion, which was shot at a nearby beach – but half of the museum is focused on The Goonies. Parked outside is the actual Jeep Cherokee driven by the Fratellis in the film. Since 2010 – The Goonies’ 25th anniversary – the building has been the Oregon Film Museum. The opening scene’s jail break takes place in the cells of what was, from 1914 to 1976, the Clatsop County Jail. Lower Columbia Bowl bowling alley where you meet Chunk is still there. ![]() The docks where you’re introduced to the character Data are the East Mooring Basin on the edge of town. The Flavel House Museum, the county’s historical society, is the movie’s history museum where one of the Goonies’ dads works. John Warren Field on Exchange Street, used by the local high school, is the film’s football field. ![]() The downtown area features heavily in the opening car-chase sequence, in which the other bad guys – the comically dysfunctional Fratelli crime family – escape from jail. In fact, Donner chose to shoot in the fall for the abundance of wet weather.Īstoria’s town centre is a walkable grid of streets along the Columbia River, dwarfed by a massive bridge spanning the waterway. “Donner had decided that the tone at the opening of his movie would be gloomy in order to reflect the sombre mood of the kids,” writes Mick Alderman in Three Weeks With the Goonies, a short book of naïve recollections from Alderman’s stint as an unpaid member of the film crew. It may not look like much at first glance – an ungilded, micro-San Francisco, perhaps – but treasures await if you explore. The foggy coastal hamlet with colourful Victorian homes is dripping with cloudy discontent but also rife with verdant possibility. The town they’re going to lose when their cash-strapped folks sign away the real estate is perhaps the film’s best casting: hilly, green, wet Astoria, Oregon. Instead of fighting Nazis, the kids are battling greedy land developers trying to gobble up their parents’ houses. Gensler Associates supervised a renovation of the Pacific Building.The cast of The Goonies featured a group of misfit, pint-sized Indiana Joneses – played by Josh Brolin, Sean Astin and Corey Feldman, among others – but with more swearing and bigger laughs. (See San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1925, p. Bradbury was the State Manager at the time. ![]() In 1925, the Massachusetts Protective Association leased space in Room #531 of the Pacific Building. This portion of San Francisco was heavily damaged in the Earthquake and Fire of 04/18-19/1906. The Pacific Building, located at the southwest corner of Market Street and 4th Street, stood immediately to the northeast of the Emporium Department Store #2, finished one year later. Whittlesey also received the commission for another highrise close by, the flatiron shaped building at Market and Ellis Streets. Whittlesey (1867-1941) presented himself as an expert in reinforced concrete architecture, and received the commission for the Pacific Building, a highrise in the heart of the Market Street business district. The Pacific Building had the street address of 801-823 Market Street.įollowing the disastrous San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of, building developers searched for architects who could deliver earthquake-resistant buildings.
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