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after serving in the united states air force wally amos landed a job and worked his way up representinge with his client marvin gaye chipping in on the loan, amos opened with great fanfare the first famous amos store in los angeles. by 1981 the $12 million business had dozens of locations selling all-natural cookies across the country. >> if i can make it with a cookie, anyone with an idea can succeed. >> the charismatic promoter of his product appearing on the cover of "time" magazine and on tv shows like "taxi," "the jeffersons" and, more recently, "the office." >> i'm sure you get new deals for cookies -- >> is it oatmeal? >> his signature panama hat and floral shirt now are a part of the collection at the smithsonian institution. amos sold his company in 1988 opening a small cookie shop in hawaii that included a reading room for children as childhood literacy became a lifelong cause. wally amos, the larger than life character who built a cookie empire, died on tuesday at home in oh-ho-ho, look at that jet stream. [ whistles ] weather. oh, boy. yep, they're calling it an atmospheric

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wally amos, the founder of famous amos cookies, died on wednesday. >>he was 88 miss grew up in tallahassee, florida, but created a desert empire in hollywood. our david lazarus details the life of entrepreneur of those delicious little cookies. >>hey, there, let us pay our respects to most aka, famous amos, the man who turned in la cookie store into a multimillion-dollar cookie most borrowed about $25,000 from friends here in la back in 1975. so he could make high-quality cookies based on a recipe that is and passed down his cookies. used real ingredients that no coloring, no chemicals. and of course they tasted great. his sunset boulevard store racked up $300,000 in sales in just the first year. and by 1981, the company was worth 12 million dollars. that's more than 40 million dollars in today's dollars. and it had stores nationwide. you've seen them in malls everywhere, of course. and nowadays, most entrepreneurs are in the tech world. they're focused on world domination. and that's all there about. you. don't see a lot of entrepreneurs breaking in

wally, a mess. the founder of famous amos cookies. my god just passed away at the age of 88 amos grew up in tallahassee, florida. >> he created a desert empire really in hollywood in just 6 years time. he's bite-size chocolate chip cookie company became or 12 million dollars. they must have been battling dementia in his later years and he died at his home in honolulu. his children say he was a source of black pride and taught them the value >> of heart. oh, my gosh. everybody's name the same as and that's the real. you can't just have size. what an invention. that's amazing. it's sad to see him pash 9.51. right now and she captivated audience with an emotional betrayal of a woman battling alzheimer's disease in the notebook. and now hollywood is remembering actress gena rowlands. she died of the disease at herself at 94 years old. >> sandra mitchell takes a look back. >> like her beloved character in the tear or love story. the notebook general and spent her final years suffering from alzheimer's. >> just a few months ago, her son cas