‘Goonies’ House Now Closed to Fans

The owner, Sandi Preston, was fine with the attention as long as it was civilized. At times during the summer there would be more than 1,000 people a day taking pictures of her house, sometimes she would even give them a tour. As the crowds grew so did the problems. Fans started traipsing across her lawn, leaving trash, beer bottles, cigarette butts everywhere and sometimes getting violent threatening Preston and her family. Enough is enough. 

The city of Astoria has been asked to assist her in blocking access to the home and earlier this week city officials posted a sign reading, “Access Closed to Goonies House” (they had previously banned street parking to ease traffic concerns). Preston has covered the front of her house with long blue tarps, trying to get people to stop walking on the porch and taking photos inside the window. 

Preston had this to say about the recent influx of Goonies gawkers on Facebook:

They don’t have a sense of family or community but feel entitled and let no one get in their way. We see it daily with the threats against us; all because we choose to have some privacy. It’s been unrestricted for 14 years and we are worn out.

Due to the bad behavior of visiting fans, the Goonies tourism may be shut down for good.