“But on weekends we’d board the Bee Line bus on Franklin Avenue and go straight to Green Acres Mall,, and that opened up a world. Sam Goody was a mother lode,” he says of that music-store ...

Per The Times Leader (a local Ohio newspaper), the manager of the Sam Goody at the Ohio Valley Mall — which opened in 1980 — learned about the store closing after Thanksgiving. An exact ...

Long before online music existed, Sam Goody - named after founder Sam "Goody" Gutowitz - was an institution and mall staple.

Musicland and Sam Goody, which were part of the same company, were the places to pick up the latest Madonna album or A-ha cassette single while hanging out at the mall. What happened: Musicland ...

Sam Goody, the music and entertainment retail chain founded in 1951, will soon close its two remaining locations: the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and the Rogue Valley Mall in ...