Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, was once a janitor at The Sink in Boulder, leaving behind a legacy and a caricature on the wall for all who eat there.

Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” publicist Cindi Berger said in a statement. No cause of death was provided.

In the mid-1950s while a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Redford worked at The Sink as janitor, cleaning the burger restaurant’s floors and saving up money to go get breakfast across the street, owner Mark Heinritz said.

The Sink has been a core part of The Hill, CU Boulder campus’s student social hub, since 1923.

“We lost a legend,” The Sink posted on social media platform X Tuesday morning. “Farewell Robert Redford. You will always hold a special place in The Sink’s history.”

The Sink obviously stuck with him, Heinritz said, and he’s come back to visit and buy t-shirts.

“His memories of The Sink were very fond,” Heinritz said. “There are a bunch of people up on our wall, but the ones that excite us most are the ones who have history with The Sink.”

Redford was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity while at CU.

The Sink is proud to have Redford as part of their history, Heinritz said.

“We hoped for Sundance, he’d be able to sign his caricature on the wall, but that’s how life goes,” Heinritz said. “It’s just one cool representation of how our history overlaps with so many other people.”