Aerodromes were still around in the early '70s. My instructor took me to one. When we came to the field, there were no marked runways on the grass field. He taught me to listen, look and enter in the downwind leg. Announce the landing direction by compass points “…landing to the southwest.” and point it into the wind. Alas that airport now has paved runways but it worked, and was surprisingly orderly. Unlike a recent experience at a low traffic resort where we had 5 airplanes taking off or landing on RW 6 and our intrepid inbound suddenly announced a 2 mile final for RW 24. He was notified by several a/c that the winds were favoring 6 and 6 was the active, he announced a 1 mile final and nearly hit a CAP departure on his way to landing downwind and against the traffic flow. I’d take that aerodrome any day if they still existed.