Chances are if you were a taxi driver a bicycle courier messaged or just an itinerant wanderer of the san Francisco bay area in the 1980s to 1990s you had at least 1 copy of the Thomas bros spiral bound map guides. These guides were invaluable towards navigating. The Bay area. As iconic as they were they were eventually bought out by the Rand MC Nally Corp everything went digital and you know the rest

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods