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Record World/Square Circle music stores were opened in 1959 in New York. The chain of record stores eventually expanded to Washington D.C., Virginia, and Sawgrass Mills, Florida. In 1978, the store chain was operated by Elroy Distributors, and presented Harry Chapin with a $1,000 check for the World Hunger Organization. [2]
King Karol was a New York City, New York-based record store chain founded by Ben Karol [1] and Phil King in 1952. [2]Lasting through at least 1987, [3] and defunct for some time by 1993, [4] King Karol was one of New York's "largest [and most] comprehensive" music stores.
In 1971, 20-year-old newlyweds Joseph and Rachelle Friedman started J&R as a small consumer electronics store selling stereos and television sets in a 500 square foot store front at 23 Park Row [11] [12] The couple saw it as a side project, selling TVs and stereos out of a 500 square foot store, as Rachelle studied at Polytechnic University (New York) in Brooklyn.
The first FYE store opened in 1993 at the Trumbull Mall in Trumbull, Connecticut. [4] [5] A second opened in 1995 at Eastview Mall in Victor, New York, and a third at Colonie Center in Colonie, New York in 1997. [6] In 2001, Trans World unified its other mall-based stores under the "f.y.e." name after buying out Camelot Music.
The store, including a performance space and a coffee counter, was initially scheduled to open in late 2012. [16] The store opened on 25 November 2013, becoming the biggest record store in New York City. [17] The Brooklyn store closed in March 2021, moving to a new, smaller location at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in June. [18]
In 1977, American Can Company purchased Pickwick International and in 1978 purchased the Sam Goody chain of record stores, which had a long history going back to 1951 in New York. Shortly after, Musicland began converting the majority of its stores to the Sam Goody brand name, although some locations did retain the Musicland name into the early ...
Sam "Goody" Gutowitz (1904–1991) of New York City opened a small record store on New York's 9th Avenue shortly after the advent of vinyl long-playing records in the late 1940s. Although he did some retail business from his main store on 49th Street, most of his volume was in mail-order sales at discount prices, of which he was a pioneer. [2]
At its peak, [when?] the firm's revenues were $1.4 billion, with 2,000 employees, operating 94 stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Massachusetts. It also operated music-only stores in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. area. The 1977–1998 and 2004–present Nobody Beats the Wiz logo. The chain closed permanently in 2003.