[Cheerio]

RE: Rotary phones. They were ‘real’ fun when radio stations did that “be the 7th caller and win” contests.

With no "Auto Dialers" (and probably before Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling was introduced in 1963 by the globes most fantastic telephone company AT&T)

[Buckeye McFrog]

RE: Rotary phones. They were ‘real’ fun when radio stations did that “be the 7th caller and win” contests.

It's why the paint was worn off the finger holes around the 3, 9 and 5 on our kitchen phone.