“When we wanted to learn some obscure fact or satisfy ourselves with a trivia question, we had to go to the public library! We’d search through huge banks of drawers filled with alphabetized paper cards (you could search by author, title, or subject).
#7 Greyhound buses and trains were the same way, as well as restaurants and bars and stores and, everywhere
#15 until they went out of business and that was because the chain stores moved into town, usually a short drive away, couldn't walk to them, they sold more things at cheaper prices.