Music fans pack flagship Sam's for one last shop
toronto.ctv.ca
Shoppers flocked into Sam the Record Man on Yonge Street Saturday, hoping to strike music gold one more time before the store closed its doors.
The company's flagship location, a downtown fixture since it opened in 1961, locked up for the last time at 7 p.m.
Sam's was buzzing as music boomed and people searched for last-minute steals, but some couldn't help but hear an ominous whisper of inevitability.
"I've never been able to find the music that I look for, that I like, any place else but Sam's," one woman said.
"Now I'm real sad because I don't know where I'm going to go to buy it."
John Fillion managed the downtown store for 32 years. He said closing up shop is hard because Sam's offered patrons much more than material goods.