The Goonies, a group of friends living in the " Goon Docks " neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon, face foreclosure on their families ' homes from the expanding Astoria Country Club.

At risk of being captured by the British during the War of 1812, Fort Astoria and all other Pacific Fur Company assets in the Oregon Country were sold to the Montreal-based North West Company in October 1813.

The United States Golf Association ( USGA ) cites three stories explaining that the term derived from the name of a Canadian golfer, David Mulligan, one time manager of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, who played at the Country Club of Montreal golf course, in Saint-Lambert near Montreal during the 1920s.

He helped W. Price Hunt to organize and lead an overland trip to Astoria in the Oregon Country for John Jacob Astor in 1809 through 1813, as a partner in the Pacific Fur Company.

* Tangerine Dream recorded a whole concert on 20 April 2007 and released the DVD London Astoria Club Concert 2007.

** Waldorf Gondola ( access lift for the Waldorf Astoria and Miners Club hotels )

* An 18-hole Rees Jones-designed Waldorf Astoria Golf Club.

John Jacob Astor was the original owner of the tract upon which Astoria was platted in 1836 and served as an important way station on the stage coach route.

In May 2008 a ten-date tour covered Cambridge, Whitehaven, Sheffield, Newcastle upon Tyne, Birmingham, London, Bristol, Manchester and Darwen, including one of the last few concerts at the Astoria.

The family moved to Florida, and on the death of his father Giovanni, Broccoli moved to live with his grandmother in Astoria, Queens in New York City.

* Bit of history: " We went up the Skipanon River frum Astoria, wher father settled an a squatter's claim.

The highway crosses the mouth of the Columbia River over the 4-mile-long ( 6-km ) Astoria-Megler Bridge at Astoria into Washington, and follows the Columbia downstream to Ilwaco.

Warrenton is located 8 miles west of Astoria across the Young's Bay bridge spanning over 4200 feet of the Young's Bay estuary at the mouth of the Columbia River.

The Hell Gate Bridge ( originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge or The East River Arch Bridge ) is a steel through arch railroad bridge between Astoria in the borough of Queens, Randall's / Wards Island ( which are now joined into one island and are politically part of Manhattan ), and The Bronx in New York City, over a portion of the East River known as Hell Gate.

The Q begins at the south end of the Brighton Line, at Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue, and travels over the Manhattan Bridge south tracks and along the BMT Broadway Line to Midtown Manhattan during late nights and weekends and Astoria, Queens weekdays while the B begins at Brighton Beach and runs via the bridge's north tracks and the IND Sixth Avenue Line to Harlem, Manhattan during middays and evenings and Bedford Park, Bronx rush hours.

The bonus legacy of this construction was that the IRT was able to operate 11-car trains on this line, and when the BMT took over the Astoria Line, minimal work had to done to accommodate 10-car BMT units.

* Astoria Line and Flushing Line east of Queensboro Plaza ( trackage rights over IRT )

When the new Waldorf Astoria skyscraper was built over air rights of the New York State Realty and Terminal Company on Park Avenue, a cast of well reputed furnishers and decorators was assembled to lend the new hotel a grand yet domestic atmosphere.

The most extensive uses of CGI in the film is the climax of the film, filmed in Astoria, Oregon, where Willy jumps over Jesse and into the wild.

His radio career began in New York City, working as the producer for the Tex and Jinx interview program from Peacock Alley in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, a live remote broadcast over WNBC AM in the mid-1950s at 10: 30 PM to Midnight, Monday through Friday.

Marilyn Milian, ( born May 1, 1961, in Astoria, New York ), is a former Florida state circuit court judge and currently presides over the American television program The People's Court.

The south side of the IRT platforms were used by the Flushing Line, as today ; the north side was used by Astoria trains, but instead of going through the 60th Street Tunnel, they went over the Queensboro Bridge to the elevated IRT Second Avenue Line.

It is estimated that over the years, he caused around US $ 500, 000 of damage to hotel toilets, resulting in his lifetime ban from Holiday Inn, Sheraton and Hilton Hotel chains, as well as the Waldorf Astoria.

* Trackage rights over the Astoria Elevated and Corona Elevated in Queens, leased to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company

Played bass at the Killing Joke support at the Astoria, London ( as seen on the Queenadreena Live DVD ), and provided bass on The Butcher and the Butterfly, co-writing several tracks, and played live gigs for over a year before leaving.

* Camp Royce Finel, a small property near Astoria

The Astoria was sold in June 2006 by Compco Holdings to property group Derwent Valley Central for £ 23. 75m, who were rumoured to be planning to convert the site into a combination of shops, flats and offices to take advantage of an increase in property prices for the 2012 Olympics.

When the Pacific Fur Company sold Fort Astoria and all of its property to the North West Company in 1813, Mackenzie was appointed to carry all important papers back east, which he did in 1814.

The DVD contains film of a sold-out live concert at the Astoria in London and all available music videos at the time including outtakes, commentary and behind the scenes features.

In the North Coast region near Astoria, and in Lincoln County, large tracts of land are second and third generation woodland, having been logged and replanted in the past.

Astoria is a town with a large population of Greek descent.

It broadens in a large estuary and enters the south end of Youngs Bay on the Columbia at Astoria.

Showbands spent many years entertaining large crowds in The Astoria Ballroom.

In 1920, Famous Players-Lasky built a large studio facility in Astoria, New York, now known as the Kaufman Astoria Studios.

Participants are taken by shuttle to the Washington side from where they run or walk to the Astoria side.

Moon's destructiveness led to The Who being banned from hotel chains around the world, including Holiday Inn, Sheraton, and Hilton Hotels, as well as the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

Both were Puerto Rican ; as was Super Lover Cee from the Astoria Projects in Queens.

At 465 river miles ( 750 km ) from the Pacific Ocean at mouth of the Columbia River adjacent to Astoria, Oregon, the Port of Lewiston has the distinction of being the most inland seaport east of the West Coast and Idaho's only seaport.

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

Too far from their horses to retrieve them, they had to cache most of their goods and walk the rest of the way to the Columbia River where they made new boats and traveled to the newly established Fort Astoria.

The York Factory Express, establishing another route to the Oregon territory, evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort Astoria and Fort William, Ontario on Lake Superior.

U. S. Route 101 enters Oregon seven miles south of Brookings, and is seldom out of sight of the Pacific Ocean except the northern end near Astoria and from Port Orford to Florence other than a viewpoint two miles south of Winchester Bay ; with another major exception being a significant inland stretch south of Tillamook, Oregon.

* Astoria Canyon, a submarine abyss 10 miles ( 16 km ) offshore from the mouth of the Columbia River

* Astoria, fictional character from Cerebus the Aardvark

* Astoria Greengrass, the wife of Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series

The film's premise features a band of pre-teens who live in the " Goon Docks " neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon attempting to save their homes from demolition, and in doing so, discover an old Spanish map that leads them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a legendary 17th-century pirate.

The scenes along the coast were filmed in Oregon, however they were a considerable distance from Astoria.

He arrived in present-day Idaho from Astoria and was later the head of the Fort Boise trading post for the British Hudson's Bay Company from 1835-44.

The first people of European ancestry to visit the Twin Falls area are believed to be members of a group led by Wilson Price Hunt, which attempted to blaze an all-water trail westward from St. Louis, Missouri, to Astoria, Oregon, in 1811 and 1812.

In 1812 and 1813, Robert Stuart successfully led an overland expedition eastward from Astoria to St. Louis which passed through the Twin Falls area.

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The fort was supplied by ships from the Pacific and by the overland York Factory Express trade route, which evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria, founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

Lombardo's orchestra played at the " Roosevelt Grill " in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City from 1929 to 1959, and their New Year's Eve performances ( which continued with Lombardo until 1976 at the Waldorf Astoria ).

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He was returning to the Missouri River posts from the newly established Fort Astoria on the Columbia River near the Pacific Ocean.