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The World's Loneliest Phone Booth For almost 40 years,a lone phone booth stood in the Mojave Desert.about 75 miles southwest of Las Vegas.It was likely installed for local miners around 1960.The glass panels were long gone from the 17 by 1990,and the phonebook had been stolen.But a visitor to the booth in 1990 found that the telephone 17 worke

D.For the next 10 years,visitors poured into the area,making the phone booth one of the oddest 18 in the worl

D.After its phone number was 19 on the Internet,the phone in the Mojave booth began to 20 more often.Visitors to the phone booth would often camp out,waiting for a chance to answer the 21 phone.Calls came in from many different states and 22 different countries.Visitors were thrilled to be able to 23 the phone and talk to strangers from 24 places.They were happy to 25 their own stories as they reached across the miles.In May 2000,Pacific Bell Telephone Company quietly 26 the phone booth.The company said that 27 were causing too much stress on the environment.Fans of the booth 28 insisting that the phone booth had become a work of art.Later,a plaque(标牌)was placed at the site as a tribute,but it also 29.In the end,the phone booth left no trace on the desert that had hosted it.Fans of the phone booth,30,can still hear the dial tone in their hearts.