Pictorial history of the credit card
Did you know that the credit card was invented because, as you might guess, someone went out to dinner and forgot to bring cash? It was 1951, and the inventor was Frank McNamara. You can see the pictorial history of plastic money—actually, credit cards weren’t plastic until American Express introduced a plastic card in 1959. A year before, Bank of America passed out 60,000 cards in Fresno, California to people who didn’t even ask for them.
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I owned the Chase Manhattan Visa at one point...man, it dates one's age (or era) by telling what card you've owned.
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