Amoeba Music Hollywood got much love in today's (Jan 13th) New York Times in the Sunday paper's supplemental Travel section as part of its weekly  "36 Hours" feature.  Each week 36 Hours focuses on a certain town, city, or small region offering up a list of the essential things to do - imagining that one has only a thirty-six hour period to spend in that place. And for this week's "36 Hours in Hollywood" Times travel writer Jennifer Steinhauer picked twelve essential stops in Hollywood including Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles, the ArcLight Cinema, and of course Amoeba Music on Sunset.


Under the heading "Before iPods" Steinhauer, who allocated a little under two hours for the Amoeba stop, wrote that, "From Roscoe’s, it’s a fast walk to Amoeba Records (6400 Sunset Boulevard, 323-245-6400; www.amoeba.com), one of the last great independent record stores in the country, where new and used CDs and DVDs are found by the mile. There are also live in-store performances (with a special emphasis on up and coming Los Angeles bands)."


To see the full article pick up today's NY Times (avail in most major cities) or check the article posted on the New York Times website.  Note that the printed version also includes a nice photo of the main floor of Amoeba looking down from the stairwell by the DVD section.

This is not the first time that Amoeba has been chosen as a must-see tourist destination by a major national newspaper.   About two and a half years ago the Washington Post, in a travel feature on San Francisco, highly recommended visiting the Haight Street Amoeba Music in an article that also favorably mentioned the Berkeley Amoeba Music store plus the Amoeba Music Compilation Vol V.