Question

Until 2000, a lone one of these locations once used by cinder miners stood in the middle of the Mojave Desert. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these locations. A designer named Itaru Sasaki created one of these locations named for the wind to help visitors connect with deceased loved ones.
ANSWER: phone booths [accept wind phones; prompt on phones]
[10h] The original wind phone is in the town of Ōtsuchi, Iwate, in this region of Japan. An earthquake usually named for this region accompanied a tsunami that led to a meltdown in a prefecture governed from Iwaki.
ANSWER: Tōhoku region [or Northeast region; or Northeast Japan; or Ōu region]
[10e] This state’s Fairfield County contains one of the many replica wind phones set up across the U.S. The first telephone exchange was established in this state’s city of New Haven.
ANSWER: Connecticut
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