What is it ???

[Holloran Grade]

(12-08-2010 11:40 AM)erielackawanna Wrote:  1980, HG? That was the end of it, yes, but I think they may have still been around.

I remember American Express, as late as 1984 or so, actually sending you the cardstock part of each charge slip for every charge you had made, and one cardstock return card (different size) that you would return with your payment. As I recall, it had punch holes in it, but I may be remembering earlier.

They definitely had punch holes in them in the mid, even late 1970s.

I got the card sort of by accident.

I left $1,000.00 that I had earned from a cool Summer job in a Cal. Federal account for a year and they started sending me all kinds of offers.

The one for the Visa card I filled out and sent it back and they sent me a card, in spite of the fact that I was 16 or 17 at the time.

The card was really helpful because I could never buy anything of value because retailers would just laugh at my checks and refuse to take them and I didn't want to carry around cash.

That was also before redi-teller machines and the only way to get cash was at the teller window.

They would always give me the third degree when getting cash from "my" account because I guess I wasn't suppose to be able to do that.

You know, two forms of id, finger prints and a note from my mother.

I left Cal. Federal due to all the grief they gave me, and Security Pacific had the machines by then. (I am old.)

Honestly though, I did not use the card that much until I went to college and more so when gas stations started taking visa.

I do remember buying food and beer at Shell near the end of every month because I got paid by the state and you get paid once a month.

That was back in the days before supermarkets took credit cards.