Re: Sic Transit: Sam the Record Man

On May 31, 3:32 pm, "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote:
Dontaitchic...@xxxxxxx appears to have caused the following letters to be
typed innews:1180636915.203650.186810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

On May 31, 12:48?am, aleksios <alex0...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sam the Record Man's TO store is closing:

<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2p5tfm>

The writing had been on the wall for some time. I'm not going to miss
the store, but the people; they really knew their stuff.

--Alex (the passing philistine)

How sad. Sam's was famous in the USA, too. Andy Karzas and I undertook
a huge driving trip in 1981. We intended to include Toronto. Andy said
"my friends in New York have told me that Sam the Record Man is a MUST."
So we went. What a place -- we were awed.

I went there, and was impressed, on my first visit to Toronto in 1986. When
I returned in 2003, the Yonge Street store was gone, but I still paid a visit
to the one opposite the HMV store.

\Wrong again.

How does Tepper always get it wrong?

Just naturally, I suppose

The Yonge Street store has been in the same place and always open
since Sam Sniderman first moved there from his brother's appliance
shop in 1961.

His sons, Jason and Bobby(a personal friend), have run the place since
the bankruptcy of the chain. They own the building, a whole corner on
Yonge Street.

But downloading and Internet buying has killed the place.

I intend to make a last visit, perhaps next week, to see if there are
any treasures still there. There usually are. Or were.
TD


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