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PhotoTO: Sam’s Last Day

By Miles Storey

Sam the Record Man, Photo by Miles Storey
During Nuit Blanche last weekend the iconic Sam the Record Man sign was lit up over Yonge Street one last time. Now the sign is coming down as demolition begins and the new owners, Ryerson University, transform the site into a Student Learning Centre. It will not disappear for long, however: last year Toronto City Council voted to designate the entire building a heritage site in order to protect the sign, and Ryerson will remount the sign on the new building. The designs for the Student Learning Centre have yet to be finalized.
Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist.

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  • spacejack

    Aw, wait, wasn’t this being preserved as a historical site?

  • spacejack

    Heh, durrr. Read too fast :)

  • Stephen Johns

    Wait–so is the *building* a historical site, or is it just the sign? I wonder what’s happening with all those autographs on the inside?

  • David Topping

    @Stephen: the contents were all auctioned off last June, and the building’s since been cleared and gutted.

  • StayMaitland

    I bought one of my first records here

  • toronno

    It’s an ugly building, an ugly sign, the records are gone – where’s the heritage? This is as silly as proclaiming Maple Leaf Gardens a heritage site and tying the hands of anyone who wants to develop something really interesting (or even useful) there.