Scott Turner Schofield
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Dec
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Not all the calls, of course, are so deep.
The Cheney Trail payphone, which has been offline since the Eaton fire in early January, long had a persona of its own, says Wood, one that was often a little more lighthearted.
Perhaps expected for a phone on a hiking trail, the calls have tended to lean more toward thoughts of self-actualization than tales of grief, such as a caller saying goodbye to his former, heavier self.
You get surprised sometimes, but Chaney Trail, for instance, is people saying goodbye to my past and hello to my future, Wood says.
And then, of course, there are the clearly drunk dials, such as two middle-of-the-night rings from a payphone near a Pasadena police station.
This girl left two messages, Trunnell says.
You could tell she had been out.
She might have had a couple.
Downtown artist S.C.
Miro, whose own public art often unexpectedly appears on sidewalks and buildings throughout the city, has championed the goodbye line on her social media channels.
You walk around every day and you don't really think about what's going through people's minds, Miro says.
This is such a reminder that everyone walking by is going through something and going through things similar to what you're going through.
She tends to think of each call as a mini short story.
Most art, when you're looking at it, you're looking at the beginning, middle, and end.
It's all right there.
But with this project, you don't know where it's going to go.
or how, for instance, it may affect a life.
Brittany Khalifa discovered the goodbye line a little more than a year ago when she walked by a payphone at the corner of 5th and Wall Streets on Skid Row.
Today, Khalifa has an apartment and is rebuilding her life, but the once-unhoused resident was in a particularly dark place when she called the 888 number.
Hooked on cocaine powder, Khalifa said, I came to L.A.
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