I have a situation where my MC has to locate someone's home without using a phone number since they're unlisted. This is 1988 France so no internet either. What would be the correct method of finding this information? Town hall? The police?
I just made up a name and picked a country at a random. I followed that to a Linkedin page and after that I had his address, two emails, a telephone number and a picture of the exterior of his his house. If I really wanted to use some of the pay services I could have had his DOB, employment history and potentially run a criminal background check on him.
But not in 1988
The person my MC is looking for is her grandfather and the only thing she knows is that he lives in Paris.
Why not give her *something* that has an old address of his on there, that could lead to a newer one or something?
And yes, some other poster had mentioned Minitel (I'd forgotten the name of it) and iirc it was rather internet-like in many ways.