Amoeba Records is an
independent record store chain that has three locations:
Berkeley,
San Francisco and
Hollywood, California.
Amoeba Records is best known for the sheer size of their stores and the vast selection that they provide. Like the
internet's powerhouse search engine
Google.com, several customers often
exaggerate their claims about the selection of music products at Amoeba, stating that if "you can't find it at Amoeba, it doesn't exist."
The Berkeley store, opening in
1990 on
Telegraph Ave., was the first Amoeba store in existence. The San Francisco store opened in the district of
Haight St. and Ashbury Ave. in 1997, and the Hollywood location opened in 2001 on the iconic
Sunset Boulevard, an area noted for being one of
America's largest cultural areas.