sentences:  On March 10, 1975, Amos took the advice of some friends, and with $25,000 from singers Marvin Gaye and Helen Reddy, he opened a cookie store at 7181 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, in Los Angeles, California, naming it "Famous Amos".In the first year he sold $300,000 worth of cookies, followed by more than $1,000,000 in sales in the store's second year of operation.By 1982 the company's revenues reached $12 million.