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Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s.
Dec 7, 1985 · Samuel S. Wurtzel, founder of Circuit City Stores Inc., died Thursday at his home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 78 years old. Mr. Wurtzel was born in Sea Bright, N.J. In 1949 he moved to Richmond...
When the enterprise operated as Wards Company TV stores in the 1950s, founder Samuel S. Wurtzel took a personal interest in his employees.
Today we learn about the story of Samuel Wurtzel and the electronics retailer, Circuit City.
In 1949, when Samuel Wurtzel opened Ward's--Richmond, Virginia's first retail television store--his goal was to provide the community with a new technology that would change the face of consumer electronics forever.
Wurtzel, Samuel & Wurtzel, Alan L. (1907-1985) (1933-) Circuit City Stores Inc. Overview. Father and son Samuel S. Wurtzel and Alan L. Wurtzel propelled the Circuit City Stores into a conglomerate specializing in consumer electronics, digital video programming, music software, and automobile sales.
Wurtzel’s father, Sam Wurtzel, opened a television store known as Wards, the first location in the eventual Circuit City empire, in Richmond, Va., in 1950. The idea came to him when he was passing through the city, stopped for a haircut and heard the barber talking about the South’s first television station, which had just debuted there.
