Wally Amos, the creator of the Famous Amos cookie empire, “inspired a generation of entrepreneurs when he founded the world’s first cookie store” on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1975, his family said. He died in Hawaii at 88.
Wallace “Wally” Amos, the creator of the cookie empire that took his name and made it famous along with its flagship store on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, has died. He was 88. Amos created the Famous Amos cookie empire and eventually lost ownership of the company — as well as the rights to use the catchy Amos name. He went on to become a children's literacy advocate, and in his later years he became a proprietor of a cookie shop called Chip & Cookie in Hawaii, where he moved in 1977.
” Uncle Noname, however, foundered because of debt and problems with its contracted manufacturers. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1996, abandoned cookies and went into muffins at the suggestion of Amos' business partner, Lou Avignone. Inside his now-shuttered Hawaii cookie shop, he sold bite-sized cookies similar to the ones he first sold at the Famous Amos store on Sunset. Amos also was active in promoting reading.
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