Introduction

At their peak, in the mid nineties, there were about two and a half million pay phones in the us. The adoption of cell phones has brought that number down further and further every year. After several decades, these little pieces of single use architecture just disappeared from the landscape. They simply weren't popular enough to justify their existence. But there is always an exception to the rule. 20 years ago, a man discovered a phone booth in the middle of the desert. That became his obsession,. An obsession that he then passed on to the world at large from the great radio program, snap judgment ofo and california producer joe rosenberg tells the story of a very special