Abstract
The Charles J. Hirsch Papers (1952-1987) contain gaming reports and net-recovery percentages from the Golden Nugget Casino from 1952 to 1967, the Sands Hotel and Casino in 1965 and 1975, the Landmark Hotel and Casino in 1975 to 1976, and the New Frontier Hotel and Casino in 1973 to 1975. Also included are American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) conference materials, speeches given by Hirsch, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and surveys.
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The Charles J. Hirsch Papers (1952-1987) contain gaming reports and net-recovery percentages (profit and loss) from the Golden Nugget Casino from 1952 to 1967, the Sands Hotel and Casino in 1965 and 1975, the Landmark Hotel and Casino in 1975 to 1976, and the New Frontier Hotel and Casino in 1973 to 1975. There is American Society of Quality Control (ASQC) conference materials from conferences that Hirsch attended across the United States where he was the keynote speaker. Also included are newspaper clippings about systems and quality control in casinos, surveys of sports attendance, correspondence to and from Hirsch regarding speaking engagements, speeches given by Hirsch, and photographs.
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Collection is open for research.
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Arrangement
Material is arranged alphabetically.
Biographical / Historical Note
Accountant Charles J. Hirsch was born in New York City, New York on November 8, 1912. After graduating from New York's Pace University in 1938, with a degree in Accounting and Business Administration, he traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was employed by the Apache Hotel on Fremont Street. His stay in Las Vegas was interrupted once by a five-year tour of duty with the Air Force Contract Audit Division, where he attained the rank of captain before his release in 1946. In 1950 he was hired by the Golden Nugget, Inc., where he served as Chief Accounting Officer, Controller, and Assistant Corporate Secretary until 1970. In 1975 Hirsch created a Master Gaming Report and a Summary of Daily Operations Report for the Sands Hotel and Casino.
Hirsch pioneered a program he called "casino systemization," which stressed the relationship of systems and procedures conducted in a casino environment to those conducted in other types of businesses. Although only money is exchanged in a casino, there is still a profit and loss factor to be maintained and quality control measures taken to insure the legitimacy of the operations conducted. Hirsch spoke extensively at conferences for the American Society of Quality Control (ASQC) about the broad range of systems used in quality control and how they applied to the casino industry.
Charles J. Hirsch passed away on July 3, 2002.
Preferred Citation
Charles J. Hirsch Papers, 1952-1987. MS-00291. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Material was donated in 1987 by Charles J. Hirsch; accession numbers 87-21 and 87-111.
Processing Note
In 2018 and 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Joyce Moore and Tammi Kim rehoused and arranged the materials, and revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards.