Shanghaied In Astoria is a musical about Astoria's history that has been performed in Astoria every year since 1984.
Astoria was the setting of the 1985 movie The Goonies, which was filmed on location. Other movies filmed in Astoria include 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 Two, Into the Wild, The Guardian and Cthulhu.
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.
The fourth full-length album by the pop punk band The Ataris was named So Long, Astoria as an allusion to The Goonies. "So Long, Astoria" is also the first track on the album
