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Oregon trail generation here, and yup! It's been wild to watch tech go from landlines, then add answering machines, fax machines, modems, then pagers, and finally cell-phones. In retrospect, why the kitchen??
As I remember it as a kid, people spent a lot of time in the kitchen. May have even wanted to chat on the phone while cooking. And there was no real counter space that you wanted to waste with a phone. So that's why they were mounted on the wall.
Had a wall mounted phone in our kitchen growing up. That thing a had a massively long cord, too. You could walk through half the house with that handset. We were little kids running around and nearly clotheslining ourselves on the phone cord pretty regularly.
I commented before seeing your comment. I also mentioned clotheslining siblings. So fun.
Did you play with the cord while you talked, trying to get the cord spirals to line up again?