I was born in the early 1930s. The family phone was an upright with no dial. You have to jiggle the receiver hook to raise the operator and give her the local area name and number you were calling. I remember our area and number was “Sheppard-1419.” The operator would answer, “number please?” My uncle’s farm had wooden phone box on the wall with a crank you hand turned to create the power to raise the operator.
You must have been well off! To even have ANY phone that early was unusual. My family never had any phone until the mid 1960's and then only because of a family emergency that required the communication.