Even still, at least you have a chance of finding the street if you drive around enough. I have no fucking clue how anyone found anything before smartphones when street signs just don’t exist. Imagine living at this random little street and trying to give directions to get there
So, I’m old enough to have driven in that forgotten time before smartphones. A lot of directions were based on landmarks. Like…
Go down the street until you see the house with the big tree with a swing in it. Take the second left after that and follow until you get to the corner where the Stop and Go used to be (it’s a 7-11 now). If you hit the highway you went too far.
Basically if you couldn’t read a map well, you got lost a lot. That and you could pull into any gas station or even better a pizza place and ask them for directions.
Even still, at least you have a chance of finding the street if you drive around enough. I have no fucking clue how anyone found anything before smartphones when street signs just don’t exist. Imagine living at this random little street and trying to give directions to get there
So, I’m old enough to have driven in that forgotten time before smartphones. A lot of directions were based on landmarks. Like…
Basically if you couldn’t read a map well, you got lost a lot. That and you could pull into any gas station or even better a pizza place and ask them for directions.