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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Rest area payphones. Its why most rest areas have a huge blown up atlas map these days

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  • rhacer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, but what gorgeous country to get fucked in! When my wife PCSd from Long Island to Fort Knox, we drove through that country several times.

    She would also spend a lot of time at Fort Lee (now Gregg-Adams) and the drive from Fort Knox to Fort Lee also crossed amazing parts of WV.

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• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  everyone had maps, but they weren’t always current

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• Jivebunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is actually a map of the Netherlands and I’m from there. I’m also old enough to remember a time without mobile phones. This was probably the call centre for triple AAA, in Dutch the ANWB. We had these emergency telephone poles along the highways. When stranded and without a map you could easily call aid through them with these phones, which they also knew where they were, for easy dispatching.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m also dutch, and Im pretty sure you couldn’t call for route advice from the ANWB poles. Or at least, you couldn’t in the later years, maybe it was different in the 60s.

    It does make a lot more sense these people are planners, not general navigation advisers.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean, payphones were at most stops. Rest areas, etc.

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• tipicaldik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would think using that service to plan a route ahead of time would be optimal…

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s what a AAA TripTik was for.

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