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Originally Posted by Hugh R
If you lived in LA 40 years ago, the first thing you bought, if you were smart, was a Thomas Guide. Used to have LA, Orange County and Ventura guides, each one was amazing in detail and about 1" thick.
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Thomas Guides were a necessity in CA. I wonder if they only covered CA or the whole west coast or (?) Other parts of the country had their own map companies that produced similar map books, in Minneapolis it was called a Hudson guide, from the Hudson map company.
That entire industry was just wiped off the map, (sorry), with the invention of GPS mapping on phones. It started w Garmin type devices but smart phones killed them dead.
My favorite map books were the huge Rand McNally ones of the entire USA and Canada with pages for each state, (CA. was 2 pages!), and pages for most cities within the states. I still have one in my Airstream trailer.