Somehow, one treasured relic from another time has survived in a mall in Belleville, but now the owner wants to retire after 45 years of running the world's last "Sam The Record Man" store. But he'd rather sell it than close it, so it's possible this unique blast from the past could still stay open with new management.

Alan Cross looks back at Sam's storied history and remembers when a trip downtown almost always included a visit to the shop at Yonge and Dundas. (With a stop two doors down to A&A's, of course.)

There's a Global News video accompanying this story, and the reporter mispronounces Sam Sniderman's name as "Sinderman." I'm guessing he wasn't around in the heyday of the store, because Sam became quite famous and something of a local legend in the city before he died and his stores here wound up as merely a musical memory. 

At least the sign still lives on. 

Remembering Sam the Record Man as the last store closes