When Ellen had her talk show she invited a 18 year old girl onstage to see if she knew how to make a phone call on a rotary dial phone. She tried her best. The girl dialed the phone number on the rotary and then lifted the phone handle from the unit held it to her ear and said Hello.My sister lives in my parents old house. She still has a yellow wall, push button phone on the wall in the kitchen complete with a 20 foot cord. She also has a rotary dial phone in the garage that my father wired in around 30 years ago. I don't know if it still works or not. The one in the kitchen does.