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Over a period of 3 years, it gathered a cult following and eventually fell victim to its own popularity. In this case, it was a lonely telephone booth in the mojave desert. Its identity mojave phone booth theatrical trailer 2006 on vimeo. Check out the trailer in the middle of the mojave desert, rests an abandoned phone booth, riddled with bullet holes, graffiti, its windows broken, but otherwise functioning. At the intersection of two dirt roads in the mojave desert and 15 miles from the road in the middle of nowhere existed the mojave telephone booth. In the middle of the mojave desert rests an abandoned phone booth, riddled with bullet holes, graffiti, its windows broken, but otherwise functioning. The booth rang constantly, disturbing the wildlife, and it brought in additional traffic as well.
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