Before you could look up addresses on the internet, how did people find smaller locations like houses and restaurants?

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I know atlases and roadmaps were a lot more common, but from my understanding those give more of a broader view of a large area like major roads and stuff. If you needed to find a small subdivision or small road, how would you do that before the internet?

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95% of addresses were easy. Just the street and the number, the map would get you close enough, and you cold intuitively find it by looking at the numbers you were near and heading the way you needed to go. There have always been really jacked up instances though. Like roads that are broken by a highway or railroad and then continue on the other side as if nothing happened. A lot of times, when you got in this situation, the wife would MAKE you stop at a gas station or other locality to ask someone and they always knew the deal. … and then the wife had to pee, and 20 minutes later, you were back in the car, and would eventually find it. Luckily, back then, most of the store clerks spoke English.

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