Joshua Tree, California: Wind Phone
An old rotary telephone has been set up in the desert, not connected to any earthly line. Your messages to those in the afterlife are carried up into the heavens via the wind.
- Address:
- 7135 Hollinger Rd, Joshua Tree, CA
- Directions:
- East side of town. From 29 Palms Hwy/CA-62 turn south (no stoplight) onto unpaved Sunever Rd. Drive until it ends, turn right, then a quick left. You'll see a house on the right; the phone is out in the desert just a little way past it.
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A wind phone set up by a couple in memory if their children who were killed in a car accident. It is there for people in grief to talk to their loved ones.
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Dial and speak into the old rotary phone, not connected to any earthly landline. Your conversation is carried up into the heavens via the wind.