In 1986, Sam Goody's corporate parent Musicland purchased the then just recently purchased 34-store Southern California-based Licorice Pizza chain and 26 other record stores for $13 million from Record Bar. The Licorice Pizza stores were rebranded Sam Goody the following year.
|
|
Record Bar buys Licorice Pizza, Alternate Link via ProQuest. bringing the total number of stores under the Record Bar umbrella to 194. New . distribution center in Durham opens in September.
|
|
Barrie becomes Chairman of the Board: Mr. B Chairman Emeritus. Record Bar-Licorice Pizza Manager Exchange. First Napoleon's Grocery opens in Charlotte. Thriller Christmas, with sales up 14% over previous December.
|
|
Ron Cruickshank resigns as President and CEO. Barrie Bergman reassumes both positions. The Licorice Pizza chain is sold to the Musicland Group. In 1986, the third Tracks Music and Video store managed by Michael Vanderslice opens in Hampton Virginia.
|
|
Bill Golden named to NARM's board of directors. Personal Development Lab opens at home office. Record Bar donates more than $400,000 in advertising and promotions to African relief efforts. First joint Record Bar- Licorice Pizza Convention in Hilton Head, SC is last company convention.
|
|
Erlandson was born January 9, 1963 in Hollywood, Los Angeles and raised in San Pedro, California. He is of Swedish, German, and Irish descent, and is a descendant of Martin Luther. Erlandson is one of seven children, and was raised Roman Catholic. During his college years, he worked for the now-defunct Licorice Pizza record store chain.
|
|
Dynasty, Ebenezer, and Destin were the first acts she managed. While interviewing Tom Petty for Three Rivers Review, Petty told Hamilton she was a California girl. That convinced her to move to Los Angeles, California in 1981. After a short run as a cocktail waitress at the Palomino Club, and then Gazzarri's, she was hired by Gary Gersh to work as a record store clerk at Licorice Pizza record store.
|
|
In 1977, at the age of 23, Groening moved to Los Angeles to become a writer. He went through what he described as "a series of lousy jobs," including being an extra in the television movie When Every Day Was the Fourth of July, busing tables, washing dishes at a nursing home, clerking at the Hollywood Licorice Pizza record store, landscaping in a sewage treatment plant, and chauffeuring and ghostwriting for a retired Western director.
|
|
Devine spent his childhood in Chicago, Kansas City, New York and New Jersey and moved to Los Angeles when he was 12. At 8, he saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, and decided to pursue a career in the music business. In junior and senior high, he wrote about music for his school papers and worked at Licorice Pizza, a retail music chain. He continued as a music journalist through college, and freelanced for Phonograph Record, Rolling Stone, and the LA Free Press, among others.
|
|
The store was across the street from the famous Whisky a Go Go club. While at Licorice Pizza, she met Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe, and began helping the band; soon after, she was hired as a management consultant by then manager Allan Coffman. Hamilton did display merchandising all over Los Angeles for the Greenworld-distributed "Too Fast For Love" record, and helped promote Mötley Crüe to the record labels. Once they were signed to Elektra Records, however, the band got new management, and Hamilton was out of a job.
|
|
Cover of Life in Hell No. 4, published in 1978 Groening described life in Los Angeles to his friends in the form of the self-published comic book Life in Hell, which was loosely inspired by the chapter "How to Go to Hell" in Walter Kaufmann's book Critique of Religion and Philosophy. Groening distributed the comic book in the book corner of Licorice Pizza, a record store in which he worked. He made his first professional cartoon sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The strip, titled "Forbidden Words," appeared in the September/October issue of that year.
|
|
Lesley Kagen grew up in Milwaukee and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she majored in Radio and Television. She worked as a morning drive DJ on an alternative radio station before moving to Los Angeles where she worked at Licorice Pizza record chain, writing, producing, and voicing commercials. Kagen's career as an actor involved on-air commercials, made-for-TV movies, and an episode of Laverne and Shirley. After meeting her husband and having two kids, Kagen and family moved back to Milwaukee where she became the co-owner of a popular Japanese sushi restaurant, Restaurant Hama, which closed for business in 2009.
|
|