I was thinking about it as I fell asleep and it just somehow got me into its clutches. And so I hung up and then I just kept thinking about it.
But then there was also in the back of your mind, the thought, “what if?” Like what if somebody wandering by? Who would be out there? Who would pick up? It just really grabbed me. There wasn’t any solid information really, other than the number.Īnd so when Doc got home he thought, okay, why not give it a shot?Īnd I jabbed in the number and it just rang and I let it ring for a long time and I was just imagining making a phone ring out where presumably no one could hear it except the coyotes. Where did he say it was exactly? Like what was the nearest recognizable landmark? So the idea that there could be this phone booth just sitting out in an un-contactable place, it was kind of like if somebody was on the moon and you could talk to somebody on the moon. I mean, I don’t know if in the age of cell phones, if it’s the same, but when you were out in the desert in those days, you were on your own. Well, I didn’t have any reason to believe it. So as I was walking home, I was kind of flipping through it and on about the third or fourth page, there were a couple of letters to the editor and one of them mentioned that there was a phone booth in the Mojave desert, miles and miles from any pavement, just sitting by itself. They’re kind of like a pre-internet miniature magazine. He’s heading back home after seeing this band ‘Girl Trouble’ and after the concert, someone hands him a copy of their zine. My given name is Godfrey Daniels, but I go by Doc. Okay, so this story starts out back in the mid-nineties in Phoenix, with Godfrey Daniels. From the great radio program, ‘Snap Judgment’ of Oakland, California, producer Joe Rosenberg tells the story of a very special phone booth in the middle of nowhere. An obsession that he then passed on to the world at large. 20 years ago, a man discovered a phone booth in the middle of the desert. They simply weren’t popular enough to justify their existence, but there’s always an exception to the rule. After several decades, these little pieces of single-use architecture just disappeared from the landscape. Only four of those are left in New York City. The fully enclosed, outdoor telephone box, you know the one that’s Superman changes in, that is exceptionally rare. The adoption of cell phones has brought that number down further and further every year. At their peak in the mid-nineties, there were about two and a half million payphones in the US.
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