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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 ]
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 ...
Licorice Pizza – Southern California chain that was started in Long Beach by James Greenwood in 1969, [135] acquired by Record Bar in 1985, acquired by Musicland in 1986, [136] and rebranded Sam Goody. [137] In November 2021, director Paul Thomas Anderson released a movie with the same name loosely based on this chain.
Closed Sam Goody store at the Wayne Hills Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. ... Sleepy's, a mattress retail chain based in the Northeast, was founded in 1931 as Bedding Discount Center.
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In 1999, Musicland launched websites for Suncoast, Sam Goody, Media Play, and Oncue. In 2001, Best Buy purchased their then parent-company, Musicland, for $685 million. [1] In January 2003, Best Buy closed 20 Suncoast stores as part of a larger closing that included 90 Sam Goody stores. [2]
Formerly owned by Trans World Entertainment, [2] it began in 1993 [3] and was expanded in 2001, 2006, and again in 2009 after buying out and rebranding mall-based stores Camelot, Sam Goody, Spec's Music, Strawberries, Record Town, Coconuts Music & Movies, DiscJockey, Saturday Matinee, The Wall, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, Musicland, Media ...
Pardon the dust. Workers are unpacking over 200 years of local history for a new museum downtown. The Akron History Center at 172 S. Main St. is a blur of activity. Crews are busy installing 20 ...