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"A Celebration of Friends" was the theme for Toronto's 150th anniversary festivities in 1984. Where better to meet your neighbourhood friends than the corner milk store, as the fine folks in today's ad are doing? One could have offered a toast to the city with a glass of milk from a freshly opened jug or debated the finer points of city politics over a carton of orange-flavoured Jungle Joose.

The National Home Show is on this week, providing homeowners with ideas on how to improve their humble abodes. Back in the early 1970s suggestions were offered on how to raise the money to afford new wood panelling and a basement mini-bar, such as buying your own convenience store franchise.