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Road Atlases and Fold-Out Maps: Navigating Before GPS Told You What to Do

Before a blue line appeared on a screen to guide you turn by turn, getting somewhere required a map, a plan, and a passenger willing to read the thing. Getting lost was part of the deal.

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Drive-In Movie Theaters: The Big Screen Under the Open Sky

You pulled in, hung a tinny speaker on the window, and watched a movie under the stars. The drive-in was part cinema, part carnival, part private world — and nothing else has ever quite replaced it.