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The Fresno Drop

99% Invisible

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Introduction

This chapter discusses the experimental introduction of credit cards by the Bank of America in Fresno, California in September 1958. Bank of America sent out 60,000 pieces of mail to people in Fresno, introducing the credit card system.

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