I think it was almost this late here in Wallowa County in N.E.Ore. We did not get dial phones till the mid 60's. Our number was 3029 and was a private line as I recall as my folks used it for home and business plus we were only 2 blocks from the exchange where the operator was. It was probably late 1970 when we could make long distance calls without an operator. My wife, kids and I spent quite a few vacations in a small remote community of Argenta, British Columbia. They had modern phones but all of the old places in the community were still linked by the old magneto phones. We had noted that there was a bear rattling things around in a near by abandoned orchard by day and the family dog barking at night. One of the neighbors rang the house where we were one evening on the old local magneto phone to say they had finally seen the bear and it was a grizzly. That was the only time I have been present when a magneto phone was actually in use. Kinda cool. Oh, and there is a rr connection to my post as Argenta was the location on Kootenay Lk. where the GN built a grade from to compete with the CPR's Arrowhead and Kooteny RR. GN did not complete their line as the CPR gained control of a narrow canyon on the Lardeau River shutting their rival out.