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

Question

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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Answer 1

Local phone books often had city maps in them. Ours had the small city and a few outlying towns. It was found in the front of the book or sometimes right before the yellow pages, often near the governmental agencies information and sometimes bus routes. Maps started to be phased out of some phone books about the time the print became so small you could barley read them.