Yes, I did have a bag phone, and it saved a long, hot walk from way out in the desert one time too. It was not long after I got it.
Those bag phones were pretty heavy with the fair sized lead acid battery that they used...
Heck, it was only about 20 years ago..
LOL! Yup. We had one too. Springy cord and all. Didn’t get the hand crank model though.