Mojave Phone Booth #1 The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone booth placed circa 1960 in what is now the Mojave National Preserve which attracted an online following in 1997 due to its unusual location. The booth was 15 miles (24 km) from the nearest interstate highway, and miles from any buildings. Its phone number was originally +1-714-733-9969, before the area code changed to 619 and then to 760. (760, now 733, was/is the Baker,California rate center