Mojave phone booth

13Oct/111

Mojave phone booth

A spectacularly romantic notion. Like a Coen brothers movie come to life - truly fascinating in a very mundane way.

Ring! Ring!

The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone booth in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California, which attracted online attention in 1997 due to its unusual location. Placed in the 1960s, the booth was eight miles (13 km) from the nearest paved road, fifteen miles (24 km) from the nearest numbered highway, and miles from any buildings. Its telephone number was originally (714) 733-9969, before the area code changed to 619 and then to 760. [...read more]

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Matt T
October 13th, 2011 - 14:05

I love stuff like this. I hate stuff like this getting trashed. Every year the world gets a little more boring.

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