re: What did people use before cell phones?

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Street navigation is the best thing about phones and gps.

I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.

If you were from out of town it was a PITA

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I still marvel at our parents doing vacations without the internet. In the 80s my family planned a trip to the southwest for 2 weeks. My dad just pinned places he thought we would stay.

We’d do whatever activity we had planned, he’d find the La Quinta, then from there, have them call the La Quinta in the next town we were stopping in.

We’d just drive around till we found dinner.

While I am impressed, my dad cussed at getting lost a heck of a lot on those car rides.

My kids take for granted that I can just plop directions in a strange town and arrive at a good restaurant that I found on yelp.