Re: Sic Transit: Sam the Record Man

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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.

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