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

Of course, there are also city maps which show every single street, often even with (some) house numbers. And with a list of all the streets in the city, alphabetically sorted, that told you which of the map’s numbered squares to look for the street in.