Paper maps and Season Pass cards

You can still get printed TripTiks at AAA.

https://www.ace.aaa.com/tra...l#triptiks

Flipping through this while driving a truck in the early 80's was a regular activity. My pager would notify me it was time to find a pay phone to get some additional stops.

Count on the group, greatly annoyed by no paper maps. To me, looking at show times and following always has been fun. While I can do the app fine, it feels like more if a chore and not particularly fun. Plus I collect the maps.

For the price if a day, there should at least be free maps offered a place or two.

jimmyburke:

Flipping through this...

I remember getting the Ohio atlas for Christmas one year. It complimented my United States atlas quite nicely!

The days of making my own trip-tiks with the color copier at work. I do not miss that at all.

Kevinj:

Heck....why not make all those bricks many of us got on the midway virtual. Why make real bricks when you can just get a virtual brick on your "phone"?

You have a Nokia for that virtual brick?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

And so I can post separately from the joke...

The park's app on iOS will let you put your pass in the phone's "wallet" so that you can use it independently of the app. I presume it is similar on other platforms.

But i rarely use that. There are many circumstances where I don't even have my phone with me in the park. And perhaps more important is the whole issue of parking. I really don't want to even risk dropping the phone while trying to get the somewhat dodgy card reader to open the gate for me. So for now at least, I still have my old Platinum Pass card...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I was at Carowinds on a Friday/Saturday in October. My pass was on the app on Friday. Saturday morning it was gone. Good thing I had my physical pass. Have been unable to add it back. Have talked to park and they said I should be fine. Have deleted app, readded app, and tried to add pass. Finds my information and says pass is added. Still not there. I have a friend that has the exact same issue.

jimmyburke:

Flipping through this while driving a truck in the early 80's was a regular activity. My pager would notify me it was time to find a pay phone to get some additional stops.

Missed this post back in October, but I had the same book for Erie County. There was just something about that book that was really fascinating.

jimmyburke and Walt, cheers! Those map books are awesome and scream old school Americana!

I couldn't resist. Found one on eBay.

Nice find Walt. Wondering what year edition that is. I assume late 70's/early 80's as the phone number has no 216 area code. Commercial Survey is located in the Caxton Building in downtown Cleveland, I was in there a few times in early 80's and believe me, it smelled like a print shop.

So to keep this CP oriented, in the late 60's/early 70's to get to CP from the Rocky River area we had to take rt. 6 and travel through sector's 16, 15, 14, 13, 8. Rt.2/I-90 was not completed then. I can't tell on your picture if it's there. And, I guess we needed to buy the Lorain County edition as well.

Dang, I should have kept my Ohio county atlas. You guys probably would have paid me $1.24 for it.

jimmyburke:

Wondering what year edition that is.

8th Edition - 2000

My goodness. It is fascinating to see how quickly things have changed in those 24 years. Now we have the world map at our fingers.

I remember when people working at gas stations needed to know their city streets because it was common for people to stop and ask for directions. People delivering pizzas had to know directions as well. Stopping at a pay phone to call people at your destination for directions was common. Wedding invitations included maps with directions to ceremony and reception. Detours were a problem because you knew only one route. Even deviating from the route to see something else you wanted to see could be problematic if you couldn't find your way back to the original route.

I remember not having a great sense of where things were where I grew up until I started driving. Didn't need to pay attention until then. No a lot of people have no clue how to get places they routinely visit because they are always using GPS to get anywhere.

I don't know why, but I was born with the ability to navigate. I only have to go to a place once and I can get there easily from then on. On that first visit, I'm also weird because I need the map on the car screen to stay north up, because if it rotates with your direction, I don't retain anything and can't make judgment calls about better ways to get somewhere. I have noticed that with time, I need to at least refresh with a map. The knowledge can fade. I went back to Cleveland for a show at Blossom a few years ago, and the nuance of dark roads between there and Peninsula were a little foreign.

My new favorite thing is subway/train systems. In Europe last year, for a little while anyway, if you could tell me where something was relative to a line in London or Copenhagen, I could probably tell you how to get there. Useful skill on vacation, but not very valuable any other time.

To your point, I too prefer the map stays north whilst the arrow representing my present location changes. The whole map spinning when I make a turn is distracting. Mrs. jimmyburke is a "landmark" driver, doesn't know the names of many streets. "You know, turn left on that street by Maples Motel. Or, It's on the road by Kroger."

Back in the days in Toledo, almost everyone I knew used the standard "Bar map" directions of the city.

"Ok.. so you go down this street till you see a bar called 'The old house'. Turn right there then go down about 2 miles till you see "Club Soda", you want to turn left but only for half a block then right right next to "Nashvilles"....

There were so many bars in Toledo back in the 80's that it was an accurate method of telling people how to get somewhere.

jimmyburke:

Mrs. jimmyburke is a "landmark" driver, doesn't know the names of many streets.

I can't find it now, but I did read a study once that indicated that women leaned toward landmarks, while men leaned toward spacial relationships, in terms of navigating. What it did offer was any possible explanations.

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