Before Google Maps, we all kept outdated, battered copies of the Thomas Guide for our area in the back seat, meaning we rarely used them, because that would require reaching into back and thumbing through 200 pages of small print with squiggly lines.
So how did we navigate? Well, gas was cheap and we drove around for fun, looking for cool places to visit.
I would sometimes intentionally get lost just to see how long it took to find my way back. Only time I had to stop for directions was the first time I crossed the local mountain range over to the next county. This was California in the late 90's.
Not long after that I drove up and down the state with no map, 1400 miles and 3 days later I made it back home.

I never get lost. My brain has active grid cells, I always know where North is , and a look at a map 20 years ago gives me all I need to get where I'm going.

Physically printed maps exist. I remember being taught how to use them in school and actually being taught by using one on road trips by my parents.

Too fake

That thing, with its obvious fake nose job, would never be my wife

One time I was so lost I needed to get a new job, a new wife, and a new name.

Why did someone draw her like Cindy Lou Hoo?

Free printable maps- you don't need to tell google where you are every second of every day to have a road map when you are there. http://www.maphill.com/united-states/detailed-maps/road-map/

Get an old school Garmin that stores maps internally

folding road maps, and every other kind of map you can think of https://www.mapshop.com/travel-maps/folding-travel-maps-united-states/folding-travel-maps-state-maps/