The year Wally stopped selling cookies, he shaved his beard and stopped wearing hats. His house had been reposed by the bank. His company had lost millions of dollars for several consecutive years.
“Being famous is highly overrated anyway,” Wally Amos, author of ten books, friend of Simon & Garfunkel, and inventor of the Famous Amos cookie, told an AP reporter in 2007.
In March of 1975, Wally Amos launched The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Store in Los Angeles. The cookies were an immediate sensation; 2,500 people to his store’s opening party.
“Being famous is highly overrated anyway,” Wally Amos, author of ten books, friend of Simon & Garfunkel, and inventor of the Famous Amos cookie, told an AP reporter in 2007.
In March of 1975, Wally Amos launched The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Store in Los Angeles. The cookies were an immediate sensation; 2,500 people to his store’s opening party.