Given the laws at the time regarding milk store hours and the extended hours that ice cream shops were permitted to have, many milk stores had an ice cream shop to expand their business. But the shops had to have separate entrances and counters. The arrangement of the outside doors here is typical for such a combination business: a small store for ice cream immediately next door to a large store for milk. Therefore it is likely that, in Anne's time, the door on the right was for the milk store (back then, people did not have refrigerators at home — the closest they had were ice boxes — so milk stores were prevalent), and the glass door on the far left was the ice cream shop entrance, open until later hours than the milk store and open on weekends.

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