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HK65 ,

That’s a map of the NL, is it not?

NiPfi ,

I think so too

Zwiebel ,

France+Iberia in the background

LesserAbe ,

How widespread was this? I grew up in the 80s/90s and pre GPS we just had a map in the car. I’ve never heard of such a hotline until seeing this post.

son_named_bort ,

I wonder if they charged per minute like a lot of hot lines did back in the day.

CircuitSpells ,

This still exists, at least in Mexico

superkret ,

“Se encuentra en méxico.”
“Muchas gracias!”

expatriado , (edited )

i can see this causing marriage arguments

you should call the hotline John

I got this Margaret!

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Sure we lost that particular job, but we also gained the job of driving around with a cam car collecting data. Then there’s who ever takes all those pictures and compiles them into street view. Sure its highly automated, but someone had to automate it…

Imgine what the hunters thought when they lost their jobs to farms.

Also rembered what community this was on after I typed all that out…

TheTechnician27 ,
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GeoGuessr mfs inventing the first time machine to have this job:

LogicalDrivel ,
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GeoGuessr person:“ok, now which directions are the shadows pointing? Any wildflowers or birds in the area?”

Caller: “I’m just looking for a gas station”

ByteOnBikes OP ,

“Just tell me what type of material is the road. Come on!”

solsangraal ,

in the 80s you could call AAA and tell them where you’re planning to go on a road trip and they would send you a spiralbound roadmap of the route with gas stations, hotels, and construction zones highlighted

rhacer ,

My father was an itinerant minister. He traveled all over the country. We made great use of TripTik (I think that’s what it was called).

Bishma ,
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Part of me still misses TripTiks. It was fun to go through them ahead of trips and always have that nicely printed, spiral bound book with you on the road.

At some point in the 90s they automated TripTiks with the idea that you’d print them at home yourself. It was all the same info but the magic was gone.

ByteOnBikes OP ,

My grandma actually recommended I do this last year. I was already contacting AAA about some other thing, and jokingly brought up road trips. They went, “Yeah we can help!” I was kinda adorable.

Tar_alcaran ,

But, when would you use this? Stop at a gas station, and instead of getting a map, you make a phonecall?

Quill7513 , (edited )

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

edit: and as a note, the death of the rest area payphone is a huge problem some places. you ever look at a coverage map for west virginia? you break down or get lost out there and you’re totally fucked

rhacer ,

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.

solsangraal ,

everyone had maps, but they weren’t always current

tipicaldik ,

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

Mouselemming ,

That’s what a AAA TripTik was for.

Jivebunny ,
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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 (car broke down) 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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