«Hello! Are you responding from the Mojave Desert? »That phone booth in the Mojave Desert is about 15 miles from anywhere. What do you do in the middle of nowhere?
The mysterious history of the cabin located in the middle of nowhere
Yes, it is true.There was once a public telephone that was located in the middle of the desert, in the middle of nowhere, without no particular reason .I rest there for almost 40 lonely years until the National Park Service, in its infinite wisdom, finally started it.
However, this telephone booth enjoyed periods of time when it felt like the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. It was a meeting point for groups of campers who came from near and far. (760) 733-9969, that was their number.8 miles from the nearest paved road, at the intersection of two bumpy dirt roads, which enjoyed great popularity c When someone, or many someone, camped there.
In the 60s, a crank magneto phone was established in this dark place to provide telephone service to local miners and other people who lived in the area.A man discovered the phone icon on the Mojave desert map, decided to visit it, and the rest is, as they say, history.Several websites echoed the phone booth, and Pilgrims came from around the world to answer incoming calls.An independent film was made in 2000, around the "Mojave Phone Booth".
In 1999, a Los Angeles Times writer named John Glionna reported that he had met a man in the loneliest phone booth in the world who claimed that the Holy Spirit had directed him for what I was present to answer the phone. I had spent thirty-two days there and answered more than 500 phone calls.
Pacific Bell, unfortunately, I removed the phone in May 2000, to request from the National Park Service.The government's request was that the phone be removed to reduce the environmental impact of the many occasional visitors , but pressure from locals unhappy with the increase in traffic may have contributed upon his unfortunate death.
Therefore, it is no longer possible to make a phone call from the intersection of nowhere and nowhere.But who remembers what a telephone booth was, anyway ?
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