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No guesswork: A customer can choose wallpaper patterns at Color Your World stores with the help of a computer, saving time and guesswork
No guesswork: A customer can choose wallpaper patterns at Color Your World stores with the help of a computer, saving time and guesswork

No guesswork: A customer can choose wallpaper patterns at Color Your World stores with the help of a computer, saving time and guesswork

Date10/6/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: No guesswork: A customer can choose wallpaper patterns at Color Your World stores with the help of a computer; saving time and guesswork.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008592F
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1/6/1978
Growing business: St. Clair Paint and Wallpaper opened 20 stores last year, giving it 194 altogether. Most are franchised, but more than 50 are compan(...)
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Way to go, robot!, Mike Eckert, production manager for Hobart Brothers of Canada, shows off his company's hot new robot, which can arc weid patterns o(...)
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Easy steps: Nancy Douglas of Color Your World demonstrates some wallpapering steps, left to right: Read instructions, roll aper inside out, use the proper applicator to smooth out the paper
Easy steps: Nancy Douglas of Color Your World demonstrates some wallpapering steps, left to right: Read instructions, roll aper inside out, use the proper applicator to smooth out the paper
3/15/1989
Easy steps: Nancy Douglas of Color Your World demonstrates some wallpapering steps, left to right: Read instructions, roll paper inside out, use the proper applicator to smooth out the paper
Easy steps: Nancy Douglas of Color Your World demonstrates some wallpapering steps, left to right: Read instructions, roll paper inside out, use the proper applicator to smooth out the paper
3/15/1989
Easy steps: Nancy Douglas of Color Your World demonstrats some wallpapering steps, left to right: Read instructions, roll paper inside out, use the proper applicator to smooth out the paper
Easy steps: Nancy Douglas of Color Your World demonstrats some wallpapering steps, left to right: Read instructions, roll paper inside out, use the proper applicator to smooth out the paper
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Salome Bey Matthews, singer-actress wears her hair braided in circle patterns with a dramatic top knot
Salome Bey Matthews, singer-actress wears her hair braided in circle patterns with a dramatic top knot
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Fun patterns
Fun patterns
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Peter Honey: the chief urban planner: says the government wants to channel growth patterns in ways people will accept because they are good
Peter Honey: the chief urban planner: says the government wants to channel growth patterns in ways people will accept because they are good
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Peter Clutterbuck, assistant program director with the mental health association, who has travelled across Canada collecting research for the study in the past year, points out that reconstructing historical employment patterns also will allow working
Peter Clutterbuck, assistant program director with the mental health association, who has travelled across Canada collecting research for the study in the past year, points out that reconstructing historical employment patterns also will allow working
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Numerous honors: Inspired by his older sister, Dominic Bellissimo began his venture into sewing at age 14 by stitching commercial patterns for himself
Numerous honors: Inspired by his older sister, Dominic Bellissimo began his venture into sewing at age 14 by stitching commercial patterns for himself
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