Remember that movie The Goonies? You know, the one with the kids who get tangled up with bumbling, yet dangerous, criminals who are in search of a pirate's treasure? Filmed in Astoria, Oregon? Has one of The Coreys in it? Don't play coy with me, I know you're flashing back to the scene where the teen girl is playing the skeleton organ, her friend's lives hanging in the balance -- literally.
Well guess what? It's playing on the wall of the old Jower's Shoe Store building in my neighborhood at 7pm tonight, October 11. Jower's is at 8801 N Lombard (in Portland, Oregon of course), which is across the street from Anna Banana's in the business district of St. Johns. Marilyn Jower Korenaga closed Jower's a year or two ago, after than 100 years of selling quality work clothes. (Marilyn is a descendent of Chinese immigrant Wan Jower, who founded the store, and was St. Johns' 2006 Citizen of the Year.)
The seating area for the flick is a vacant lot, a mixture of gravel and bright green grass, so bring a chair. It's a former brownfield, renovated and cleared for public use again recently. So let's use it!
I hope to see you there. And bundle up, please. It's cold at night these days!
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You know, I'd love to see Goonies. I'd love to see it on the wall of an old shoe store in St. John's. But, shiiiiiit - it's cold outside. You bad ass hardy folk - enjoy.
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Great, now I need to go buy the DVD. This movie was the first movie that made me excited about owning movie posters. I was dedicated to finding the treasure that was the one of four movie posters out of Fruit Loops cereal boxes back in the 80s until I had them all... sheesh. That memory was buried forever until now.
Wonder if those posters are still around...?
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