{"id":1949,"date":"2007-06-01T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T12:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2009-11-02T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:07:02","slug":"strolling-on-yonge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/06\/01\/strolling-on-yonge\/","title":{"rendered":"Strolling on Yonge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_05.31.07\/city\/photos\/city_stroll.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_05.31.07\/city\/news.php\">This week&#8217;s stroll column<\/a> in Eye Weekly had me wandering up and down the Yonge Street Strip, and was written before hearing about the closing of Sam the Record Man:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In late high school, circa 1992, four of us from Windsor got into a Dodge Shadow and drove up the 401 to Toronto for our first real road trip. We didn&#8217;t know much about Toronto other than the tourist places like the CN Tower or Casa Loma &#8212; neighbourhood names like the Annex, Rosedale or even Kensington Market had only a faint ring of familiarity &#8212; but we knew the first place we had to go was the Yonge Street strip. <\/em>We parked, we walked back and forth, and eventually got served drinks at the second-floor bar, staring in awe across the street into the giant rotating neon discs of Sam the Record Man<em>. We were in the promised land. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yonge Street really deserves a whole book about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering up and down the Yonge Street Strip, and was written before hearing about the closing of Sam the Record Man: In late high school, circa 1992, four of us from Windsor got into a Dodge Shadow and drove up the 401 to Toronto for our<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/06\/01\/strolling-on-yonge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Strolling on Yonge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[686,5870,423,19,853],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighbourhoods","category-walking","tag-cn-tower","tag-dodge-shadow","tag-eye-weekly","tag-toronto","tag-windsor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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