I remember.
Recently I saw some pictures of a house that has not been changed since the 1960s or 70s. What fascinated me most was the fact that the owners were STILL using a rotary phone. I had not seen one in years!
Sounds like my father-law's house. He still has a tube TV and shag carpet too. My son says that it "is like stepping into a time warp at his house."
I didn’t know current systems could still route pulse-dialed calls.
We had a cable technician out here a few days ago, replacing a bad connection that we felt was outside to their setup. Tech wouldn't admit it, and replaced our modem, splitters, and remote which was fine with us. We get combined phone, Internet and TV from them.
Anyway, we are one of the few who still have a telephone land line (and a couple rotary phones for the heck of it). Tech mentioned that if we ever discontinue it, they're ordered to only do new installs of digital phone land lines if ever we wanted to reconnect. Which means no more rotary, or analog phones. The reason we like analog, is if power goes out then the phone land line still works (especially true of rotary). If power goes out with digital phones, no can work.
If you can find a rotary phone, you should grab it. It will work regardless of the state of the power grid.
My friend has a rotary phone in his kitchen. He lives in a basement apartment that was a fallout shelter. Mondo cool man cave.