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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Lots of maps lol. Maps for every city, every state, etc. the city maps had street number ranges on them if I remember correctly. And then we switched to printing pages and pages of mapquest directions. People have it so easy now. GPS get us everywhere and we don’t know how to get anywhere without it.