Credit cards in the 1970s?

[LordGarmadon]

Watching a show on Netflix ... the police are investigating a cold case and said that a credit card was last used in a pub in 1978.

So, a question for the more mature MN user, could you use a credit card in a pub in the 1970s? Was it a done thing?

I remember my parents only having cash or cheque well into the 80s.

I worked in pubs in the 80s and early 90s when we still used the paper slips. While most customers paid with cash, all business people paid with a credit card. In the late 70s, when there were high taxes and widespread industrial action, I remember my brother had his phone, car and credit card bills paid by his company instead of getting a pay rise - I assume it worked out more advantageous with tax. So possibly he would have paid a pub bill with a credit card.

I remember being asked for several copies of receipts, which were all hand-written at the time, so I assume that while one person was paying the bill, all of the others were also claiming it on expenses.