The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone that stood 12 miles from the nearest paved road in California’s Mojave National Preserve

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Originally published at: The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone that stood 12 miles from the nearest paved road in California's Mojave National Preserve | Boing Boing

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99 Percent Invisible did a great episode about the Mojave phone booth.

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Volcanic cinder.

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If you look at that location on street view you get an interesting shot of some geezers changing a wotzit on their SUV

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At the risk of sounding like Ruth Gordon, inquiring of George Segal, where’s Papa? He should be here for Mojave stuff.

Here’s another Mojave man:

Telephone, telephone
Like a plastic-horned
Devil

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The site is begging for a box with a phone bell that would ring once very infrequently, hidden a good distance away so that it could just be heard from that spot if it’s quiet.

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Damn, that thing must be hot as hell in the daytime.

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I’m betting, though, that the phone company didn’t want to pay good money to remove the phone lines - which makes it possible that someone could find the line and install a phone again

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To lure out Telefonmann?

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You just never know where you might be when you need out of the matrix.

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I used that line when calling mom to pick me up from work :smiley:

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