Sonic Boom Music Sonic Boom Music is Canada’s largest independent music store. Opened May 16, 2001 by Jeff Barber this 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m2) store houses 50,000 new and used CDs, 20,000 new and used DVDs, 25,000 new and used Vinyl Records as well as thousands of video games, cassette tapes, VHS, music–related books, audio accessories and collectable silk-screened posters. The store buys and sells previously owned CDs, DVDs, LPs, Cassette Tapes, video Games and has an extensive stock of new products (CDs, DVDs, LPs etc.). The store is well known in Toronto for its huge, intricately designed, front window displays showcasing the latest releases to come into the store. In summer of 2007 Sonic Boom Music expanded their store by dedicating their retro-ly renovated basement to vinyl records, players and accessories.
Mobile phones, TV, Internet and Home phone service Sears The Beguiling Coordinates: The Beguiling is a comic shop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It specializes in underground and alternative comics, classic comic strip reprints, and foreign comics. It has built an international reputation for focusing on and promoting non-superhero comics in the superhero-dominated North American comic book market. The store has made effort to promote comics culture in Toronto by organizing the annual Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) in coöperation with the Toronto Public Library, and by opening sister store Little Island Comics, the first North American comic shop aimed exclusively at children. History[edit]
Dragon Lady Comics Dragon Lady Comics was a comic book shop in Toronto, Ontario, owned by John Biernat. Originally founded in 1978 as a mail order company, Dragon Lady Comics was opened as a store the following year. Dragon Lady closed on 3 February 2012. The comics business reopened nearby on 8 February 2012 as the Comic Book Lounge and Gallery. Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe, 1926 - 1971, was widely known in the Jewish community as Hyman's Bookstore. It was an important part of the early history of Spadina Avenue in Toronto, as well as the early Jewish community of Toronto. The store was founded in 1926 by Ben Zion Hyman and his wife Fannie (also known as Faygle). For most of its 45 year history, Hyman's Bookstore was located at 412 Spadina Avenue in Toronto, Canada.
Spence Diamonds The company is unique among diamond retailers in that its vertical integration extends from a diamond buying office in Antwerp, Belgium, through to its manufacturing studio in Vancouver, BC. Spence controls the process in the design and production of engagement and wedding rings. As the only Canadian jeweler to utilize a diamond trading office in the diamond capital of Antwerp, Belgium, Spence purchases only 0.28% of the high quality polished diamonds presented.
A&B Sound A&B Sound was a Canadian home electronics retailer based in Richmond, British Columbia. Its flagship store was located in Downtown Vancouver, and the chain expanded to other cities in B.C. and in western Canada, but the company began struggling in the 2000s decade and collapsed altogether in 2008. History[edit] A&B Sound was founded by Fred Steiner in 1959. The first store was located in downtown Vancouver, and in 1970 it moved to 556 Seymour Street. The store initially sold televisions, stereos and radio equipment, adding music later that year.