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

Stop at a phone booth to look up the address in the phone book. Then reference that to a map book people usually kept in their vehicles. Or if you heard of the place from someone else they would give you specific directions where to turn of the street name wasn’t a well known one.