My grandparents both sides had no running water or phone. They had a pump and had to heat the water on a wood stove. Used outhouses. They both lived in the boonies. Mum had a ringer washing machine for a long time, well into the 60’s. She liked her ringer. Wasn’t until mum was 14 that they moved to a city and they got both hot and cold running water, a indoor bathroom and a phone. But it wasn’t the numbers we have today you had to go though a switchboard and people had letters combined with a few numbers.