Sam Gutowitz
American retail businessman (1904–1991)
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Samuel "Goody" Gutowitz (February 25, 1904 – August 8, 1991) was an American businessman and the founder of the Sam Goody record store chain.
He was born in Manhattan on February 25, 1904,[1] the eldest of three children of Fanny and ladies' tailor Julius Gutowitz, who was born in Poland.[2]
He later legally changed his name to Sam Goody.[3]
In 1978, Gutowitz sold the Sam Goody chain to the American Can Company for $5.5 million[3] (equivalent to $21 million in 2024[4]).
In 1940, Gutowitz married Sadie Deutsch.[2] They had two sons, Howard and Barry, and two daughters.[1]
In 2015, for the filming of the HBO television series Vinyl, Martin Scorsese turned the Brooklyn branch of Rough Trade into a 1970s Sam Goody store.[5]
