Mojave phone booth

The phone booth was originally set up in 1948 to provide telephone service to local volcanic cinder miners and others living in the area, at the request of Emerson Ray, who owned the Cima Cinder Mine nearby.

[4] In 1997, a Los Angeles man spotted a telephone icon on a map of the Mojave Desert and decided to visit it.

He wrote a letter about his adventure to an underground magazine and included the booth's telephone number.

An Arizona man, Godfrey Daniels, read the letter and started a website devoted to the Mojave telephone booth.

[9] The Mojave phone booth's number, 760-733-9969, was acquired from the CLEC by phone phreak Lucky225 on July 31, 2013, and would ring using voice over IP to a conference he and Teli Tuketu set up, as well as a text based IRC-like chat.

[10][11] Callers joined a conference where strangers could once again connect just like when the phone booth was active.