I was born in 1954 and I remember the old rotary dial.
One tiny town/village we lived in had the really old magneto crank phones.
No, I can't remember the ring sequence, two short and one long, or if it
was a different sequence. I was either 5 or six years old then. I even had hair too.
Life was easier back then. We just went to a friends house and asked through
the screen door if "so and so" could come out to play. And we had to be home
by the time the street lights came on.