Editing Sam the Record Man (section)

== Founding ==
Sniderman's Music Hall was launched in 1937 by [[Sam Sniderman]] (d. September 23, 2012) and Sidney Sniderman, as the record department in his family's existing store, Sniderman Radio Sales & Service, at 714 College Street (now home to L Squared Salon) in [[Toronto]], which had itself been established in 1929 by Sidney Sniderman.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sam Sniderman |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sam-sniderman-emc |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica Canada |access-date=February 11, 2024}}</ref><ref name="history">
{{cite news
 |last        = Black
 |first       = Debra
 |title       = Sam the Record Man finally signs off
 |page        = A10
 |newspaper   = The Toronto Star
 |date        = 2007-05-30
 |url         = https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/05/30/sam_the_record_man_finally_signs_off.html
 |accessdate  = 2007-05-30
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120930200349/http://www.thestar.com/News/article/219252
 |archive-date = 2012-09-30
 |url-status     = live
}}</ref> In 1959, Sniderman's Music Hall moved to [[Yonge Street]] in order to compete with [[A&A Records]], and was located in the basement of Yolle Furniture Store at 291–295 Yonge Street.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgkEAAAAMBAJ&q=hmv+yonge+street+1994+move&pg=PA62 |title = Billboard|date = 1996-06-29}}</ref> On Labour Day 1961, the new store moved north to its location at 347 Yonge Street, two doors down from A&A, where it became a Toronto landmark.<ref>From a newspaper ad in the collection of Frederick Harrison, former store employee 1981–2007.</ref> The flagship store of the competing [[A&A Records]] chain was located nearby at 351 Yonge Street. Steeles Tavern, a popular nightclub and live music venue, was between the two stores at 349 Yonge Street until it closed in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://torontoist.com/2015/01/historicist-steeles-tavern-and-the-rise-of-gordon-lightfoot/ | title=Historicist: Steele's Tavern and the Rise of Gordon Lightfoot| date=2015-01-10}}</ref>