I had literally forgotten there was a time before GPS.
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I remember doing errands in the greater Boston area, setting out to go 4 towns away to buy, say, welding gas, and pulling over every 5 miles to look at my atlas
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here is [ part of ] the route from my old house to Igo's Gas and Welding Supply not tricky at all w GPS, but a royal pain w a paper map ...and God help you if you get lost, and have to find street signs then look them up in the index of the Atlas, flip to the correct page...pic.twitter.com/N3JKH7iMPU
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well, Boston was settled in 1630, and this town pictured [ Waltham ] not much later
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