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In March of that year, the first Famous Amos cookie store opened in Los Angeles, California. [7] He started the business with the help of a $25,000 loan from Marvin Gaye and Helen Reddy. [4] The company began to expand, and eventually, Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies could be found on supermarket shelves across the United States.
Package from a Singapore outlet, c. 2007. The Famous Amos cookie brand has gone through four package designs. The original package consisted of a round, tin metal box, similar to the blue packages of a European brand of cookies, except that Famous Amos's package was white, and with a photo of what seemed to be a large chocolate chip cookie spinning on Wally Amos's finger.
On March 10, 1975, when Wally Amos opened Famous Amos, a shop dedicated solely to selling cookies at the corner of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Formosa Avenue, it was an improbable idea in an ...
Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr., founder of the "Famous Amos" cookies known and beloved nationwide, died at 88 on Wednesday, his family said. The American entrepreneur died peacefully at his home with ...
HONOLULU (AP) -- The Hawaii man who in the 1980s lost ownership of his Famous Amos cookie company is reinventing his brand yet again. Wally Amos debuted his latest push for a retail rebound this ...
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Wally Amos, a once Tallahassee resident who built a cookie kingdom, died Thursday in Hawaii. The Florida capital city native who became known to the world as Famous Amos in the late '70s and '80s ...
Keebler Chips Deluxe Rainbow cookies Keebler Delivery Truck, US 23, Michigan. Godfrey Keebler, of German descent, opened a bakery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1853.His bakery networked with several other local bakeries and others around the country over the years, and in 1927 they merged into the United Biscuit Company of America.