Eugene Haslam modelled his ByWard Market nightclub after Zaphod Beeblebrox, the fictional world adventurer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

As he passes the York Street bar over to a staff member on February 1, we take a look back at a 1995 CBC report about Haslam's inspiration.

"The neat thing about Zaphod is he really didn't care about anything. He was just a world adventurer. Wherever you put Zaphod he was like, 'Hmmm, what's so neat about here?' And he'd find his niche in there," Haslam said in March 1995.

He said that sentiment exists in the bar.

"When I walk in and see a bunch of people hanging out together, and some people are in suits and ties, and then you've got this guy beside you with a nose ring and this girl beside you with a navel ring. It's people coming together. There's something really nice about people coming together."