With that amount of people I'd start charging them $1 each to get close, could make a good living :lol
Astoria Goonies House Now Off Limits
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With that amount of people I'd start charging them $1 each to get close, could make a good living :lol
Actually that's what I'd do-post a sign with viewing times and either a fee or ask kindly for a "donation" and sit back and watch the cash come in.
So much money to be made and so many ways to make it.
Pic on Porch 20.00, Dominos Pizza 50.00, room for the night 1000.00.
That women is sitting on a gold mine
Pic on Porch 20.00, Dominos Pizza 50.00, room for the night 1000.00.
That women is sitting on a gold mine
Lord Boron
Sr Member
That assuming all these people trespassing would be willing to pay for the privalage. I for one would be willing to drive by if I was in the area, but I don't care about TheGoonies enough to be willing to pay for it. Plus, now you have a commercial property, which is another whole set of headaches, and possibly not even legal in an area zoned as residential.
Solo4114
Master Member
On the one hand, yeah, caveat emptor. But on the other, *****, come on, showing up at 4:30am all the way through to 11pm? Have some ****ing decency, people!
I can see where, if this were a public establishment like Twede's in Snoqualmie, WA (the Twin Peaks diner) or the Llanerch Diner outside of Philly (from Silver Linings Playbook), yeah, you don't get to complain that customers keep coming in and ordering the cherry pie (which, by the way, is kinda lame at Twede's, or was when I had it, like, 10 years ago). But this is a private residence. And while it's fair to assume that people will wander around it and take pictures, it's quite another thing to have them leaving their ****ing garbage, traipsing around the property at all hours.
I know we're all fans here, and so are more accustomed to our own perspective, but really, there's a line and it sounds like fans were regularly crossing it. It's not as if the owner was unaware that it was a "fan shrine," but I can imagine being totally unprepared for the degree of disregard fans have for your privacy and lack of respect for your property.
I don't have a ton of sympathy for someone who wants their private home to be totally off limits to the public. I don't even get that privilege (e.g., Google Maps can drive by and snap a photo of my house). But if every day I had to clean people's garbage off my front step, you bet your ass I'd be having a chat with the city and/or local gendarmes.
I can see where, if this were a public establishment like Twede's in Snoqualmie, WA (the Twin Peaks diner) or the Llanerch Diner outside of Philly (from Silver Linings Playbook), yeah, you don't get to complain that customers keep coming in and ordering the cherry pie (which, by the way, is kinda lame at Twede's, or was when I had it, like, 10 years ago). But this is a private residence. And while it's fair to assume that people will wander around it and take pictures, it's quite another thing to have them leaving their ****ing garbage, traipsing around the property at all hours.
I know we're all fans here, and so are more accustomed to our own perspective, but really, there's a line and it sounds like fans were regularly crossing it. It's not as if the owner was unaware that it was a "fan shrine," but I can imagine being totally unprepared for the degree of disregard fans have for your privacy and lack of respect for your property.
I don't have a ton of sympathy for someone who wants their private home to be totally off limits to the public. I don't even get that privilege (e.g., Google Maps can drive by and snap a photo of my house). But if every day I had to clean people's garbage off my front step, you bet your ass I'd be having a chat with the city and/or local gendarmes.
Bones_68
Sr Member
Very well said, Mr. Finch!
Sean Astin asks fans to back off the property
http://koin.com/2015/08/21/sean-astin-to-goonies-fans-back-off/
You can read his whole letter on his Facebook page
http://koin.com/2015/08/21/sean-astin-to-goonies-fans-back-off/
You can read his whole letter on his Facebook page
Kerr Avon
Master Member
Yes, you buy a landmark, you should expect people at all times of the day and in numbers you won't like. Even if a small portion behave like douchebags, the rest are still going to show up constantly as it IS a landmark in film.
Lord Boron
Sr Member
No, once you buy a "landmark" (and I don't consider this anywhere close to being a landmark) it becomes private property. If she was smart, she would take the Amytiville Horror route. A little exterior work will make it unrecognizable.
My whole take on it is that you work with the local authorities and city government who already recognize it as an attraction to set and enforce reasonable limits. Posted signs saying when it's too late and you'll be considered to be trespassing, donotation boxes for upkeep, surveillance, fines for littering... but above all, enforcement of those. For the first few months it'd be a pain for the city, but once people started getting the message, it'd settle down and people would eventually treat it like other attractions with set hours.
That said, I still wish that back when she'd listed it for sale someone had bought it to turn into a museum/theme bed-and-breakfast. After a few years, one would have been able to buy the house next door and regain one's privacy and living space somewhat, while still getting some decent supplemental income from the Goonies shrine one had set up.
I think my biggest gripe in all of this is more of a categorical one -- people who acquire things or places of greater or lesser geek cache who then don't know what to effective do with them. Paul Allen has the right idea, turning his personal collection into a museum. About the exact wrong approach is to sit back and do nothing, let the situation boil over to utterly unmanageable, then have a meltdown about it. How many of us would have been more than happy to step in and advise, if asked a decade ago, how best to manage the inevitable fan interest in her house? I have Palpatine in my head saying, "Now you will pay the price for your lack of vision".
--Jonah
That said, I still wish that back when she'd listed it for sale someone had bought it to turn into a museum/theme bed-and-breakfast. After a few years, one would have been able to buy the house next door and regain one's privacy and living space somewhat, while still getting some decent supplemental income from the Goonies shrine one had set up.
I think my biggest gripe in all of this is more of a categorical one -- people who acquire things or places of greater or lesser geek cache who then don't know what to effective do with them. Paul Allen has the right idea, turning his personal collection into a museum. About the exact wrong approach is to sit back and do nothing, let the situation boil over to utterly unmanageable, then have a meltdown about it. How many of us would have been more than happy to step in and advise, if asked a decade ago, how best to manage the inevitable fan interest in her house? I have Palpatine in my head saying, "Now you will pay the price for your lack of vision".
--Jonah
grimstitch
Member
Time to set up some booby traps!
can you imagine the charity that could be raised?! if it were me, i would do tours on the weekend and donate it all.
Grey
Sr Member
If you look at NeoRutty's photo you can see a "donations" box directly behind them.
Personally I think trying to close it off is the wrong way to go. Legally all she can really do is tell people to stay off her property, it won't stop them from swarming the property line (the town can't exactly ban people from a public road) and probably only make the situation worse.
I mean, asking people to stay out is only going to stop the courteous fans who likely wern't a problem to begin with. The jerks will still be jerks and hop over or walk past whatever signs or fences they put up. Is she going to turn the property into Fort Knox trying to keep people out?
I sympathize with her, i'm a private person and wouldn't want people peering through the windows. Which is why I wouldn't buy a house from an iconic film.
Personally I think trying to close it off is the wrong way to go. Legally all she can really do is tell people to stay off her property, it won't stop them from swarming the property line (the town can't exactly ban people from a public road) and probably only make the situation worse.
I mean, asking people to stay out is only going to stop the courteous fans who likely wern't a problem to begin with. The jerks will still be jerks and hop over or walk past whatever signs or fences they put up. Is she going to turn the property into Fort Knox trying to keep people out?
I sympathize with her, i'm a private person and wouldn't want people peering through the windows. Which is why I wouldn't buy a house from an iconic film.
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