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Interesting little piece about the world-renowned Mojave Phone Booth. Have a look-see.

Hi Lutherdammit,

Interesting piece.
First comment: I'd advise you to use GuideML rather than html - the latter won't survive Editing. Don't define your own fonts... and you forgot to close your tag which is a sin in the eyes of the Guide parser.

But moving on to content:
I'm a little unclear about the motivation behind this. You imply that Godfrey Daniels started this craze, but then you say he travelled from Arizona to see it. Why, if it wasn't already famous?
Secondly, I've been to Mojave a couple of times and it's really not that remote. Heck, you can drive there and back in a day from LA.

I guess from what you've said that the booth was in the National Park. Was it really not near a road or anything? Was it inaccesible by 4x4 vehicle? I get the feeling I'd need more information before I swallowed this tale.

Oh, and you're not supposed to use the first person, even to describe the act of researching an entry. Try "Your correspondent..", for "I" - you might get away with that .

But it is (or was), as you say, an intriguing thing...

GVI

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Hey Matt

I remembered seeing this a couple of years ago and made a note to get back to it someday. Someday ended up being today, and now I see you've bookmarked it. I was wondering if you hadn't done any research on it yet if you would mind if I snagged it? Please?

I hope you didn't mind, because in a moment of boredom I went ahead and wrote it up. If you have anything to add or change, let me know and I'm happy to share credit.
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Looks fan-bleedin-tastic to me. I've been off-line elsewhere and have enough going on as is. Glad to see such a great subject dragged out of the flea market and written up so well

And is now on its way to the EG