Ear: Goonies

A recent headline in Willamette Week probably sent “The Goonies” fans into a five-alarm tizzy: “Astoria’s Famous Goonies House Has Reopened to Foot Traffic.”

The house, owned by Sandi Preston, has been closed to foot traffic since 2015, when rude and destructive fans during the film’s 30th anniversary were overwhelming. Now it’s official, but travel sites have apparently been mentioning the foot traffic reopening since last year.

The Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce and Oregon Film Museum, though, in a recent Facebook post, “continue to encourage fans to refrain from driving into the neighborhood to seek out the house,” and ask that the house be photographed from afar, to give the little street’s residents some peace and quiet.

“There were so many comments and everything about it …” Preston told Willamette Week about the reopening. “It was just something that I felt I needed to do. I’ll just leave it at that.”