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Originally Posted by speeder
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.
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I still have mine. Took it with me when we drove to Calgary this winter, but never used it ( I was actually kinda sad because of it) Instead, my wife used her phone. I am a map nerd. As a kid, I would stare at maps from all over the world for hours (spend many hours looking at socal) dreaming of the far away places I would visit someday, like 4wheeling in Anza Borrego.
