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IT The year was 1984, and a crew showed up in Diana ‘You’ve thrown us under the Goonie bus!’ Mortensen’s quiet Astoria neighborhood to film a quirky There Goes the Goondocks adventure comedy at a nearby home. Things got hectic, but it didn’t last too long, and when filming wrapped, she says, the The Trufe Shufe Kerfufe crew gave all the neighbors turkeys, just to say thanks. That film — “The Goonies,” — made $61.4 million at the But somewhere along the way, while nobody was paying Goonies tourism is drawing thousands of domestic box office, then faded quickly into cultural memory. attention, “The Goonies” started to gain some serious pop visitors to one Astoria neighborhood. Life returned to normal for the residents of the newly chris- culture traction. The house where filming took place, known tened “Goondocks,” and it stayed that way for decades. Neigh- colloquially as “Mikey’s House” or, simply, the “Goonies House,” Here’s what it’s like to live there. bors would occasionally find strangers wandering the streets, was purchased and renovated. A cult following grew. And the sometimes from places as far-flung as France or Michigan, Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce made note and got looking lost. They’d point them toward the shabby white house serious about promoting Goonies-related tourism. Soon, the What do you get when you cram tens of up the gravel road and chuckle to themselves, but that was as far trickle of visitors became a flood, say residents, more voluminous thousands of “Goonies” fans into one tiny as it ever went. by the year, and bringing with it noise, trash, and cars. Lots, and In fact, Richard Foster and Gary Smyth, who moved to the lots of cars. Astoria neighborhood? neighborhood years after filming had wrapped, didn’t even real- On the eve of the Goonies 30th Anniversary Celebration, the ize they were living in Goonies territory until they happened to excitement is reaching a fever pitch. And the Goondocks, resi- A whole lotta trouble. pop in the movie at home one night. And there it was, right in dents say, is starting to feel less like a residential neighborhood the opening scene. and more like a cross between an amusement park and a big old “We said, ‘Holy crap, that’s our street!’ Smyth recalls with a laugh. parking lot. cont. pg 8 3 June15 hipfishmonthly.com Test Drive ALEXA WILEY our new and the wilderness FRAMED Minnesota at KALA June 27 Fat Bike a new album for a prodigal river daughter 11th and Marine Drive in Astoria t01&/%"*-:twww.bikesandbeyond.com SOMEONE WHO LNG is a method of cool- DOESN’T LIVE ing and concentrating natural gas so it can be efficiently HERE, IT SURE FOR transported by tanker ship. FEELS LIKE ALEXA WILEY IS COMING According to the Columbia metaphorical lyricism with rustic, yet vibrant HOME. River Keeper, the proposed project that Wi- Americana that can get dirty in its roots, “I first found out about Astoria when I ley opposes would require the construction while also shining pretty with hard-to-deny opened for [folk singer] Michael Hurley ten of a pipeline and would invite the ongoing melodies.” years presence of enor- Wiley wouldn’t be pinned down on her Professional Real Estate Services ago,” mous tanker ships. selection of covers, but did tell us more Wiley The fear is that an t-PDBM,OPXMFEHF about what she’s been listening to lately. told accident or act of “Linda Rondstat, pretty much nonstop. t/BUJPOBM&YQPTVSF Hipfish sabotage could The tape deck in my car is the only thing t"UUFOUJPOUP:PV from ignite the concen- that works, and I have that Linda Rondstat Port- trated natural glass tape, so...” She also had a Jackson Browne land, and induce a cata- tape but she listened to it too much and it 503-468-0915 “and strophic explosion. broke. Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, and XXX1BDJöD1SP)PNFTDPN from Wiley also told Tom Petty rounded out her roster of recent there I Hipfish that security UI4U "TUPSJB 0SFHPO influences. started concerns could limit And what about her genre moniker so many river use by other “post-folk troubador”? friend- merchants or recre- “The folk era that happened in the 60s is ships in ational users. really not happening any more,” said Wiley. Astoria. Wiley’s passion “I would consider myself a folk musician, ZIP LINE TOURS for this local and The and writing your own songs and singing people global cause moved your own songs is part of that tradition, but are so her to write an the renassiance is past and now we’re grap- progres- explicitly anti-LNG pling and embracing and doing all kinds of sive in The Wilderness are: Sean Oldham (Richmond Fountaine) on drums, song titled “Beer on crazy things with the changes in the music Dale Turnbull (Loose Change) on bass; guitarist Bret Malmquist a really Ice”. It is featured in industry.” unique (Jesus Presley) and the crowd pleasing multi-instrumentalist Steve Columbia Cross- Dearborn (The Outdoorsmen) on banjo, fute, penny. One of Wiley’s “crazy things” is unlikely way. ings: Oregon Faces cross-media collaborations. Her frequent ENJOY A It’s an America’s Energy performances with Dave Densmore, titled activist community that I really admire and Future, a documentary of the long fight in For The Love of Fish, may be her calling TOUR OF 8 respect.” Oregon against proposed liquefied natural card out here on the coast. ZIP LINES IN You might remember Wiley from that gas terminals. Dave Densmore tells true stories of his VooDoo Room show a decade ago. You As you might have guessed, Wiley never life as a fisherman is a plainspoken “cow- A BEAUTIFUL might remember her from her frequent leaves her politics at the venue door, so be boy poet” style and swaps short sets with SETTING! collaboration with fisherman-poet Dave prepared for an evening’s entertainment Wiley. Their two styles, Densmore clipping Densmore or the long-running and that asks you to engage. along factually and Wiley drifting past like much-celebrated Fisher Poets events that Billed at KALA as Alexa Wiley & the a poet, invite meditation on the mighty chronicle the true lives of wild fisherman Wilderness, this upcoming concert features Columbia and waters everywhere from lots in spoken word. Or maybe you saw her a 4-piece band fronted by Wiley featuring a of different angles. perform at one of many fundraisers for the range of originals and a handful of covers. Welcome Alexa Wiley & the Wilder- Columbia River Keeper organization. ‘The Wilderness includes Sean Oldham ness home at KALA. Friend Michael Hurley For Wiley, it all runs together into a (Richmond Fountaine) on drums, Dale promises to drop by for a song or two. unified ethos that guides her craft and her Turnbull (Loose Change) on bass; guitar- Alexa Wiley career simultaneously. Politics, music, and ist Bret Malmquist (Jesus Presley) and the & The Wilderness crowd pleasing multi-instrumentalist Steve place are one and the same for the post- Saturday, June 27 folk troubador.