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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.
The Samuel S. Wurtzel Endowed Chair in Social Work was established by the VCU Board of Visitors in 1986 and funded by Alan Wurtzel in memory of his father and his commitment to social justice, the Richmond community and the School of Social Work.
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.
Jan 19, 2016 · Virginia Commonwealth University faculty, staff, alumni and school friends gathered at the 20th annual Society for Social Work and Research conference in D.C. to celebrate research and Denise Burnette, Ph.D., the newly appointed Samuel S. Wurtzel Endowed Chair in Social Work.
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.
May 29, 2018 · Circuit City was founded by Samuel S. Wurtzel, an importer-exporter who owned a business in New York. Wurtzel had sold his business and was vacationing in Richmond, Virginia in 1949 when he went to get a haircut and, while chatting with the barber, learned that the first commercial television station in the South would shortly go on the air in ...
Jul 23, 2021 · Samuel Wurtzel, 78, who founded a small television store and turned it into one of the nation’s largest electronics retailers, died Thursday. The company he founded began as a retail...
