Abstract
The Central Credit, Inc. Records (1956-1987) contain meeting minutes, employee records, business ledgers, newspaper clippings, membership applications, photographs, and reports. Also included are incorporation papers, a Code of Ethics, Credit Law, Tod Early's personal calendars/diaries, and audiovisual materials. Central Credit, Inc. had branches in Reno, Las Vegas, and Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and also in London.
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The Central Credit, Inc. Records (1956-1987) contain meeting minutes, employee records, business ledgers, newspaper clippings, membership application, photographs, and reports. Also included are incorporation papers, a Code of Ethics, Credit Law, Tod Early's personal calendars/diaries, and audiovisual materials. Central Credit, Inc. had branches in Reno, Las Vegas, and Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and also in London.
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Collection is open for research.
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Arrangement
Collection is in alphabetical order.
Biographical / Historical Note
Central Credit was a business established in 1956 by Charles A. "Tod" Early, a casino cashier at the Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada. The company's purpose was to provide casinos a centralized warehouse for casino check and credit information based upon what was known as "early returns." Casino cashiers called Central Credit on a direct line to check a customer's credit, thus allowing casinos to share player information through secure lines. In 1964 Early incorporated Central Credit with his brother Ray and opened an office in Las Vegas, Nevada. They elected to be a Subchapter S Corporation. Charles and his family moved to Las Vegas and Ray and his family remained in Reno. In 1968 Charles started the first Casino Cashiers School in Las Vegas and Ray did the same in Reno. By 1969 the Central Credit office in Las Vegas had 42 subscribers. Since many casino patrons had credit abroad, Charles decided to travel to London and was successful in securing many casino subscriptions; the first subscriber was the Playboy Club.
In 1986 Charles and his brother Ray sold Central Credit to the Chilton Corporation, a subsidiary of Borg Warner. Charles agreed to stay on with the new owners for two years as a consultant at which time he sat as the President of the committee to update the Code of Ethics. He renamed it the "Gaming Industry's Code of Ethics for the Exchange of Credit Information."
Preferred Citation
Central Credit, Inc. Records, 1956-1987. MS-00542. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Collection was donated in 2008 by Linda (Early) Mesiner; accession number 2008-020.
Processing Note
Collection was processed in 2017 by Joyce Moore.