How To: Use and dial the rotary telephone in 1927

Attention Central California Residents: This film shows the actual cutover date from operator assistance to direct-dial (local only) in Fresno and Madera, California.

Dial telephones were placed into service at midnight on Saturday, May 28th, 1927.

If you are still having trouble reading a telephone book or using those extinct dial telephones, then maybe this still has some relevance for you.