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Call a boomer or zoomer: Magic phone booth bridges the generational divide

The payphone in Boston encourages zoomers to "Call a Boomer." (Grace Griffin/Here & Now)
Grace Griffin/Here & Now
The payphone in Boston encourages zoomers to "Call a Boomer." (Grace Griffin/Here & Now)

Two phone booths promise to span the generational divide by connecting members of Generation Z in Boston with baby boomers in Reno, Nevada.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan and Peter O’Dowd try it out for themselves.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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Indira Lakshmanan
Peter O'Dowd