Entertainment And Astoria Oregon
Shanghaied In Astoria is a musical about Astoria's history, that has been performed in Astoria every year since 1984. They also, at times, freshen up the show by having the males and females reverse their roles.
Sight Seeing In Astoria:
- Columbia River Maritime Museum
- Peter Iredale shipwreck
- Astoria Scandinavian Festival
- Astoria Regional Airport
- Clatsop Spit
- CGAS Astoria
Movies and TV Made In Astoria:
The monster movie "It came from beneath the sea" (1955) has a reference to Astoria, OR. The Navy tracks the beast (a giant Octopus), first to Astoria Oregon, where it attacks people on shore, leaving sucker imprints in the sand.
Astoria was the setting of the 1985 movie The Goonies, which was filmed on location. Other movies filmed in Astoria include Overboard, Short Circuit, The Black Stallion, Kindergarten Cop, Free Willy, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, Benji the Hunted, The Ring, The Ring Two, and Into the Wild.
The early 1960s television series Route 66 filmed the episode entitled "One Tiger to a Hill" in Astoria; it was broadcast on September 21, 1962.
An album by the rock band The Ataris, So Long, Astoria, has cover art and a title song depicting the city.
Astoria is mentioned in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash as the best place at that point in the novel to get to the USS Enterprise.
Astoria was also mentioned in the movie Eight Below; it was the current hometown of character Jerry Shepherd. Most recently it was mentioned in the movie about the Coast Guard "The Guardian" with Kevin Costner.
The monster movie "It came from beneath the sea" (1955)has a reference to Astoria, OR. The Navy tracks the beast (a giant Octopus), first to Astoria Oregon, where it attacks people on shore, leaving sucker imprints in the sand.