Sam Goody — named after founder Sam “Goody” Gutowitz — was an institution and mall staple. But it wasn’t just a place to flip through bins of records. Coming of age as it did with rock ...

“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 ...

The family-owned chain opened its first Long Island store — a 73,000-square-foot, two-level location — in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream on Sept. 30, said Sam A. Dushey, president of the ...

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 ...

There are two Sam Goody brick-and-mortar stores remaining in the United States, one in Ohio and one in Oregon, and both are set to close for good. Sam Goody is a music and entertainment retailer ...

BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio — The last two Sam Goody stores, including one in Belmont ... The local store, which opened in the Ohio Valley Mall around 1980, has been managed by Rick Polanski for ...

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 ...