One of three surviving poles from a 1929 transcontinental telephone open wire line being "replanted" at the Goffs Museum compound in California's Mojave Desert. The original 1929 line was dismantled and removed in the early 1990s. Fellow members of the historical group "E Clampus Vitus" provided the manpower to get the job done in this 2002 photo. That's fellow collector Richard Dawson in the foreground holding the pole steady with his shovel. Richard was our volunteer foreman on the job. All three poles are now part of an interpretive tour at the museum. If ever traveling through the Mojave Desert on I-40, take a short side trip north to Goffs. Stop in at the museum (a restored 1914 schoolhouse), grab an interpretive tour brochure and visit our poles! (Please see additional photo [id=162742346])