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Phone Booths
On June 8, 2014, working phone booths mystically became rare enough to be worth using in magical rituals. Why that date? Nobody knows, actually. Magic is not yet science; there’s a certain amount of built-in uncertainty about the whole thing. If you could reliably write it out as an equation, it’d stop being magic and start being a particularly obscure branch of physics. The later registration with the Smithsonian of a working phone booth in the National Register of Historic Places had nothing to do with this directly, although that symbolic act certainly locked down some things. Continue reading Item seed: Phone Booths.