[PHOTO] Where Sam the Record Man was

[rfmcdonald]

The northeast corner of Yonge and Gould, just north of Yonge and Dundas, once hosted the flagship store of Sam the Record Man, a leading Canadian music store chain that collapsed in 2005, the flagship store continuing on but finally closing on the 30th of June, 2007. The site was bought by Ryerson University, which levelled then building and then in April 2011 announced plans to build an avant-garde student centre.

I have pictures here of the old building after the store closed and of the demolished site. Now, the construction crews are digging the foundations for the student centre.