How would people in the 20th century find a niche store

Question

Say you were in the 1920s or 1970s. If you wanted to find a store to buy music or just any store that catered to a specific niche, how would you have gone about finding out what your options were?

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Answer 1

You’d look it up in a business directory, like the [Yellow Pages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_pages).

Those have been around since the late 1800s.

[This Yellow Pages advert](https://youtu.be/r2TilNclT8k) is still pretty well remembered in the UK.