As a kid in the 70s, I collected Matchbox cars, but they weren't collectibles, I played the hell out of them.

@andyvonyeast332

2 ай бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing! What would life in the 70’s be without our Matchbox and Hotwheels cars?

@jimmyarmijo2252

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but them orange track strips in the hands of an angry mom....

@Pea-bj2qv

2 ай бұрын

The drug store in a little town in Upstate NY sold them . They had the display and the stacks of boxes with the ones they had in stock. I loved going there.

@kevinluschak5241

2 ай бұрын

Yep me too

@moronicpest

2 ай бұрын

We started off with Hot Wheels cars, but after awhile moved on to AFX and Tyco slot cars sometimes raced on converted ping pong tables.

How many times did you hear a man say "I read playboy for the articles"?

@monkeygraborange

2 ай бұрын

While that was the joke, Playboy actually had interesting articles by leading authors and journalists, as did many magazines of that time. Now, we just have vlogs from people who can neither read, write or speak.

@MontanaRockSlayer

2 ай бұрын

Spank you very much😂

@GeorgieB1965

2 ай бұрын

Yes...the articles... were well... staged.

@t.j.payeur5331

2 ай бұрын

I read every issue cover to cover. The best women, the best fiction, the best news, the best jokes, the best cartoons. Only 1 dimensional morons considered it just a nudie mag....

@GeeEm1313

2 ай бұрын

Some of the articles were worth reading.

My mum always bought the cloth calender, but when the year was up , we used 'em to dry dishes 😀

@charlesbaldo

2 ай бұрын

Should have saved them. They were accurate again in 5-7 years

@jimmyarmijo2252

2 ай бұрын

Wow, I completely forgot about cloth calendars. Born in '60.

@kentd4762

2 ай бұрын

Same (dish drying).

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

@@charlesbaldo Except for the year.

@EllyWoman777

2 ай бұрын

I have a few. They are faded. Memories!

Somewhere around 1975 I found a large box of Playboys from the late 1950s-early 1960s in a box next to a dumpster by a furniture store near our house. I took them home and showed them to my Dad. They were all in good shape. I hauled them downtown to a large magazine store thinking maybe I'd get $10 for the box. They gave me $3 each for the 50s and $2 each for the 60s. I thought I'd really hit the jackpot.

@thewkovacs316

2 ай бұрын

but if you had held onto them for another 20 years, a collector wouldve given you much more

@Pea-bj2qv

2 ай бұрын

​@@thewkovacs316LOL 😂, they would have been worn out by then and the pages would be sticking together. 😂😂😂😂

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

@@Pea-bj2qv I can relate. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dW15rLWGd8LJlNI.html

@monty4336

Ай бұрын

You probably got $3 for the Monroe issue which is the most collectable of the 1950s Playboy's. You got screwed.

@genericman6648

Ай бұрын

Have you enjoyed any "trans" centerfolds lately?

The cool guys who had their own cars had an AM/FM radio, an 8-Track player and a CB radio!

@angeldesigns1385

2 ай бұрын

My first car was a 1982 Cadillac sedan DeVille. White with red velour interior that I got when I was 18 years old back in 98.. it had an 8-track that still worked, and I found a bob segar tape between the seats when I took it home and cleaned it up. I played that tape for like six months before I finally broke down in installed a CD player. I loved that car!

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

My first car, a 1974 Chevy Nova, didn't have an 8-track player, so I removed its ashtray and hooked one up to the cigarette lighter wires.

@footballlvnlady

2 ай бұрын

My boyfriend had a rust colored Nova in the mid 70’s. Large tires and Cragar rims. Three on the floor. Had dice hanging from the rear view mirror. Tachometer on the dash. Eight track, radio and cb radio. Driving around talking to the public with the speaker on the cb radio. Our family room had the itchy throw. Cloth calendars on the wall. Pyrex lasted forever!

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

@@footballlvnlady Our dog jumped against my mother causing her to drop her Pyrex baking pan. It didn't break and the dog got to eat a whole lasagna.

@peggyl2849

2 ай бұрын

My older sister was the one with the cool car - we used to get on the CBs and play hide-and-seek around the neighborhood, using the meter/signal strength to point us in a direction. LOL, one of my brothers suggested hiding in the garage. We could hear the other cars going up and down the alley, looking for us.

I remember Tiger Beat magazines in the early 70s. With the the teenage actors and child actors.

@peggyl2849

2 ай бұрын

And don't forget '16' magazine :)

@judgedredd8841

2 ай бұрын

My cousin had a huge stack of those magazines. Her bedroom walls were papered from top to bottom with Donny Osmond posters.

I had all the Herb Alpert albums from The Lonely Bull to The Greatest Hits. I still like him to this day even though I don’t have any record albums. He is still recording at the age of 86!

@moronicpest

2 ай бұрын

I saved my parents Herb Alpert album called Whipped Cream and Other Delights. Not sure why...oh yes I am.

Thimbles. My mother had no spoon collections on the walls, but instead small thimbles that were also displayed on wooden shelves and were her pride and you. To this day she still owns them and I don't see her ever parting with them.

I'd forgotten all about the Whacky Packages. Seeing them again was stirring. I could literally smell the hard gum again and I even remembered that I covered the dresser in my room with the stickers. - I love these videos.

My Mom crocheted all the time and I treasure the blankets and doily's that I still have 💞

@billiewender49

2 ай бұрын

Remember when everybody had the crocheted dolls, that would go over the toilet paper roll.

@peggyl2849

2 ай бұрын

My first job out of high school, I worked with a bunch of older ladies and one of them taught me to crochet. The first thing she taught me was a granny square. LOL, I just changed colors and kept going until it was the size of an afghan. I gave it to my grandma, and when she passed it came back to me. Still have it.

@wesbromberg6204

2 ай бұрын

Mine did too. Still have a couple afgan blankets

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

So did mine. Then she switched to needlepoint and finally to macramé.

@bobd5197

2 ай бұрын

My mom made that zig zag pattern blanket, exact same colors!

I collected Wacky Packages from 1972-1976. Put them all over my clothes dresser in my bedroom along with my clothes closet - much to my mother's consternation.

@ddivincenzo1194

2 ай бұрын

My sister and I shared a room for a time and used our collection to plaster all over our bedroom closet. My mom was really upset.

@dawng.8836

2 ай бұрын

I had them all over my dresser.

Character drinking glasses from fast food chains. They were all real glass too. Marbles were a big thing with kids. Aside from everything being mushrooms, there was also the yellow smiley face. I swear those were everywhere.

I remember back in the 70's finding a huge stack of Playboy magazines at my friend's older brother's "man cave". He lived underneath the garage behind the house in a small cramped space which was so 70's from the carpeting to posters of hot girls and cars on the wall. As a 12-year old kid my eyes were popping out of my head as well as other things bulging. I love the 70's.

@grimsoul0

2 ай бұрын

I would take my dad's old Playboy and Hustler magazines and tear out the pictures. Take them to school and sell them. 25 cents for a page and 50 cents for the centerfold. For a 10 year old kid in the 70's, I felt like I was making a lot of money. My dad finally noticed his old magazines were missing and wanted to know what happened to them. I was honest with him and told him what I was doing and he just laughed about it but told me I should stop doing that. I miss him.

@luisreyes1963

2 ай бұрын

My late father once had a huge stash of Penthouse & Hustler magazines. Me & my big brother got in trouble when my father caught us with his stash. We got yelled at for our transgression. As for the magazines, they somehow mysteriously disappeared soon after.

@genericman6648

Ай бұрын

Have you enjoyed any "trans" centerfolds lately?

Owls and macramé… were big Colors Avocado green, harvest, gold, Paprika, common colors for appliances . Curly hair Perms were big along with paisley print shirts

@tanyalarose8907

8 күн бұрын

I was going to say, he forgot about owls

👏👏Yay, 1970’s was the best I was a teen, I collected bell bottom jeans, quarters to buy beer and music, music, music!! 🤭

@ConnerKirk433

2 ай бұрын

You needed 2 of them for a 40 ounce or 4 for a 6 pack 😅

@julenepegher6999

2 ай бұрын

@@ConnerKirk433 yes, and sometimes if there was a keg everybody threw in a few.

@Thelake9667

2 ай бұрын

Wasn’t it all glorious???😌❤️

@julenepegher6999

2 ай бұрын

@@Thelake9667 it was, and then some!

I remember doing latch hook stuff as a kid...

I just shipped my mothers household goods stateside. She had a huge collection of 45s and albums that we are still going through.

Beer can collecting and trading with friends was popular in my area in the late 70's. There would be beer can shows where people would show their collections. Also remember riding bikes with friends to the Village Pantry to buy the wacky packages gum and candy cigarettes.

I had stacks of records, model kits ( cars, airplanes, space ships ans so) , comic books, HO electric trains and slot cars, base ball cards and wackey pack cards, movie and black light posters and anything unusual things for my bedroom for decorations. As a teen in the 70s and early 80s was a really cool time.

Old calendars are also useful every 6-7 years they are correct again.

Velvet blacklight posters, stretched out soda bottles filled with colored water. Collecting Frito Lay pencil eraser figures. Collecting the see through swappable lead pencils with the stacked plastic inserts.

@Nerval-kg9sm

2 ай бұрын

I had a Mickey Mouse as a Matador black velvet painting, when I was 4 in 1975 or thereabouts.

@GeeEm1313

2 ай бұрын

My uncle used to work in a 7-Up plant, and he gave me and my brother some of the weird stretched out bottles.

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

My stretched out Coke bottle had a big paper flower in it.

@Emily-Whitfield

2 ай бұрын

Love those blacklight posters!!

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

@@Emily-Whitfield I had a Peter Max black light poster. Years later, I discovered that gin and tonics and a certain bodily fluid also glowed under those lights.

I so liked the colonial furniture! I still have some wooden chair that I use to sit at my computer, they are sturdy and lasted a long time!

@monkeygraborange

2 ай бұрын

I have a rock maple dresser from that period, and it’s the heaviest piece of furniture in the entire universe!

I had all of the Star Wars toys and wish I still did. I also collected matchbooks, ashtrays and hotel room keys. Still have a few left, and my Dad had a big collection of cocktail stirrers, including about a dozen or so from the Playboy Club that I inherited. And whenever I find an old Playboy, I buy it.

Honestly, I would love all that mushroom decor😂! Crocheting is back in style and so are the granny squares ☺️!

@mrssilencedogood4825

2 ай бұрын

Look at estate sales. I see those mushroom canisters alllll the time. We had them too growing up. Majority of estate sales now are for our parents generation as I see tons of childhood memories at them.

@skinnymini43

2 ай бұрын

@@mrssilencedogood4825 Thanks for the info! I’m actually an 80’s baby, but I’m so into vintage stuff! ☺️

@rzoo5113

Ай бұрын

Mushroom 🍄 are in style again I see mushroom 🍄 things everywhere. I believe do to the Mario bros movie mushrooms 🍄 are back in style.

I miss my troll dolls wish I kept them. Thanks for the memories. ❤😊

@genericman6648

Ай бұрын

Were they designed to look like blks?

Lol I’m watching while crocheting a flower blanket. It’s not scratchy!

Hell yeah man....'70's beer can collections.

My home town went crazy in 1976 and painted everything from parking meters to fire hydrants red, white and blue.

@willhorting5317

2 ай бұрын

Same in my tiny hometown.

@user-iv4uy4qz4b

2 ай бұрын

Yes, Spirit of 76 was everywere in Ft. Lauderdale.

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

@@willhorting5317 Mine had a population of 5000. Yours?

@willhorting5317

2 ай бұрын

@@DavidLS1 approximately 300 people at the time. Today there's about 225.

@DavidLS1

2 ай бұрын

@@willhorting5317 That is small. Mine is still about 5000, although I haven't been back there since I went away to college.

I, too, enjoyed mushrooms in the 1970s.

@rzoo5113

Ай бұрын

😂😂

@nathanday2595

Ай бұрын

Hilarious 😊

@willoughby1888

7 күн бұрын

Myself? I 'collected cactus' buttons. Only because I heard that mushrooms grew on cow poop. Something about that just turned me off from trying them.

I loved the 70 s remember all these crazy collectables.

I did collect music and did have an 8 track, but the portable one. I have records, cassettes, CD and DVD for movies and still have many of these.

@lisaayers1975

2 ай бұрын

Same here 👍

@bruce8808

2 ай бұрын

What great memories from the mid 70s in my High School days. 8-track tape player in my Mustang playing Blue Oyster Cult, Supertramp and Ted Nugent. Cheech&Chong for laughs.

Yeah, I used to buy Playboy's because I was an avid reader! Great articles! 😁

@Piano_Castle

2 ай бұрын

Yes, lots of well-rounded articles in Playboy....

@genericman6648

Ай бұрын

Girls/women enjoyed them too! One reason of many, there's a le sb i n epidemic today.

@olehlytviak8552

Ай бұрын

I like the pictures !

Beer can collecting was big in the 1970s. I had about 1,500 cans.

Wacky Packages! Oh yeah.

Macrame was pretty big in the 70's. My Mom did it all the time. My siblings and I all had macrame belts with big buckles. I collected baseball cards that I don't know what happened to them. I also had a beer can collection that everyone was collecting back then. Looking through old junk piles in the woods for cone tops and other old cans was like looking for treasure. I still have most of my beer can collection. I also still have my Playboy and Penthouse magazines but they are from the early 80s.

You missed everything I collected back then. Plastic model airplanes, cars, and trucks. Electric trains. HO slot cars. Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Johnny lightning cars. Balsa wood gliders. Marbles. Baseball cards, football cards. GI Joe, and his accessories. Record albums, and 45's. (vinyl) Bugs. (Yes I had a Bug collection. Amazing way to learn about insects.) Pennies. Bottles. Beer cans.

For years my father wagged me to the bowling alley on Blue Chip stamp night. I think most of our camping equipment came from the Blue Chip stamp store. I remember when they were closing we cashed out and that was the end of that.

0:32 I had eight tracks, then cassettes, then CD’s and now nothing at all 🚫 2:03 I just took ones like these from my mom’s kitchen drawer. She was using them as dish towels. Now they are safe in my home and I bought her new dish towels. 😁 2:43 I had Wacky Packages plastered all over my room. Recently I bought an entire collection of them. 👍🏻 4:20 My uncle had a big stack of them, some of which somehow ended up under my bed. 😉 5:41 My job as a little boy was putting the green stamps in the books. 6:28 Yup, had several knitters in the family. So many things hit home with me in this video.

My mom used to make "dough art" mushrooms and glue them to wood plaques to hang in the kitchen.

@julienielsen3746

2 ай бұрын

I made some from the first polymer clay they made back then. No colors. It only came in white that you could paint yourself. I made some of the mushrooms. and little animals.

Something I posted on another website, is about the Welches grape jelly jars which were drinking glasses once you used the jelly. They had the Flintston’s printed on the glass jelly jars/glasses

Recollection Road brings back so many memories :) A real feel good in such an awful world we live in today....Thank you.

@ps_nyisgone

2 ай бұрын

amen to that!

I’ve still got all the Wacky Packages my brother and i collected as kids. Still as funny as ever!

My mother collected Tupperware like there was no tomorrow.

My sister still has a sunburst yellow corningware mixing bowl my mom used when we were kids. Oddly, we had the mismatching avocado green appliances in the kitchen. 🤔😂

I had every KISS tape from the self named album to Love Gun. I didn't want Alive 2 or anything after. I had grown up and valued my hearing a little more. I had moved on the another band you mentioned, Pink Floyd and of course Zeppelin. New wave hit in 1979-80 and I was young enough to like it. Rush did Permanent Waves, The Cars and The Police were on the rise and Supertramp ruled the airwaves. By that time, I was in the service and collecting cassettes instead of 8 tracks.

I collected comic books, sci fi and horror magazines, and superhero action figures!! Yes, back then I was a nerd❤❤❤❤❤

@RonBarracuda

2 ай бұрын

Mad magazine and Crazy magazine!

HOLY COW, YOU LEFT OUT HOT WHEELS .

@rf159a

2 ай бұрын

Matchbox cars too!

Our gang use to collect on weekend evenings at the home of a girl whose parents were never erver around but her father had a huge collection of Play Boy Mags. What an eduation for 14 year-olds boys. Gave us ideas and inspirational goals. Made us realize just how fascinating girls could be. Sodomy wasn't celebrated back then . . . Times have changed.

@shiroibasketshoes

2 ай бұрын

I'm a hetero guy who never wanted to look at Playboy centerfolds; too explicit for me. Plus I worried sometimes the women did not want to do them but only needed the money. "Sodomy" has been used to mean various things. Certainly I don't have positive thoughts about some of them, but nothing's wrong with being gay.

Ticket stubs from movies, concerts and sporting events were among some of our most cherished possessions.

I got many things with Green Stamps. We called those spoons, Travel Spoons.

I sold my Peter Max, “LOVE” buckled belt recently, for a nice chunk of change. Got it in 1970ish.

I loved Wacky Packages!!! I would walk to 7-11 and when they had the new series it was like discovering gold!!! I never stuck mine I kept them. I once bought a whole box of series 4 for my birthday. I was just going to never open it, but alas I could not do it. I still have my collection and every once in awhile I get it out. Brings back such memories of childhood in the 70's....

I had a huge collection of Wacky Packages in the 1970s. They can still be found online through Topps and I found a ton at a Dollar Tree years ago.

Ahhh, the things that still make you smile 😊

I have a whole box of those crochet blankets and other goodies.

I have a lot of pyrex and use it almost every day.

Charm bracelet charms. I always got these for Christmas and my birthday. Still have my bracelet.

I have a sock full of bicentennial quarters. Not worth much but they were fun to collect and I had big dreams.

In addition to the Star Wars toys I had Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999 and Buck Rogers action figures. Man, I wish I still had them. It never crossed my mind how valuable those things would become.

I still have my original Star Wars Action Figures. They all have their blasters and light sabers (the telescoping ones). The hardest one to get was the Jawa.

Earth tones 👍🌎 I had kisses first album AND dark side of the moon on 8 track . In fact I STILL have them lol

I have a dish towel collection. Some are from Europe flea markets and some are from the states. I have the calendar calenders. I use all of them including my french linen ones.

You hit 100% on this one! Damn, but I’m old!!

Thank you for the fun blast from the past

I can't believe that no one has said anything about black light posters and rock posters all over our walls. They were the best! Almost forgot about the trick shops stuff too. ❤

Oh my gosh, I remember so many of these things! I distinctly remember collecting green stamps with my Grandma, who used them to buy all sorts of things, including a whole set of cranberry (?) glassware. I also remember the checkers at the grocery store with their cumbersome registers!

I was heavily into cb radio back then and bought anything and everything to do with cb radio but I sold it all when I got into ham radio in 1986. Ive started to collect old cb radio items again in the last few years, some of the old stuff is worth serious money to collectors of cb radio items.

I collected beer cans had some really nice ones.

We had a giant ceramic mushroom cookie jar always filled with Mom's homemade cookies. I also remember the pure thrill a good friend and I experienced when we found a stash of Playboys in an older kids' hideout in the woods. Good times!

I have two of that Pyrex and it’s so good with the tabs being able to lift out of the microwave without burning the hell out of myself

The fabric calendars became tea towels when the year was over. I bought one for each of my children's birth years. When they're over, they see their towel on the holder and get squishy and sentimental.

I loved those Wacky Packages! I had 3-ring binders that were covered in the stickers. My parents and teachers hated them.

I liked those casserole cookware and had a few of them.

@sonyafox3271

2 ай бұрын

Pyrex but, they don’t make just casserole dishes!

The cloth calendars were the only dish towels I knew. My wacky stickers went on my dresser. We were a bluechip family. The mushroom decor is popular again.

Thanks. That brought up a lot of great memories ❤ I'm very proud of my Johnny West collection. I have 9 horses, all of the family figures, Black Bart, the Indian & the covered wagon. They were my basement family. That's why I love your stories.

@flowerfaeri

2 ай бұрын

My mom bought me and my sister the horses for our Barbies 😅

Had a crush on.Barbi Benton. Hugh Heffner was a lucky man. She was his GF for 7yrs and was on the cover of PB 4 times

Beer can collecting was big when I was a kid. Living in the Midwest, if you had a Coor’s can you were golden

My Mom loved Tupperware.

@dawng.8836

2 ай бұрын

My mom was a dealer.

My parents collected both Hummel's and Royal Dalton figurines, I collected music and Star Wars stuff until my teens then it was all music, cars and girls for me. Really haven't collected anything since back then.

Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories, His Greatest Hits.

@julienielsen3746

2 ай бұрын

I was watching a video about the plane crash yesterday. So, sad he only lived to be 30. Sounded like he wanted to get into films too.

@ps_nyisgone

2 ай бұрын

Time in a Bottle is an emotional great song.

My first 8 track was Closer to Home by Grand Funk Railroad...

Collected button pins as a kid in the 1970s

@cherylgant6555

2 ай бұрын

me too

@ps_nyisgone

2 ай бұрын

me three!

Although my folks had several 8-tracks, I only ever owned one... Rush's "Moving Pictures". The other 350+ albums that I owned, were either LPs or cassettes. (And ALL of my KISS albums were on LPs.)

Beer can collections. That's what we had .Beer cans from all over the country , and overseas.(I had an uncle who traveled for business). I also had 8 tracks, Wacky packages, Top Value Stamps, Eagle Stamps. I wish I would have saved the beer cans

Ahhh! The 70's Gravesend Bklyn, Yamaha mini bikes, Great Food, Hottt 🔥 Lookin Girls! & Rock & Roll! Scored Zeppelin tickets that Summer Before High School! Lord How I Miss that time! Fond Memories 4 ever. God Bless 😊

Stamp Collections were still the rage up through the BICENTENNIAL in the early 70s

I was obsessed with the Trolls pencil toppers in the 90s & early 2000s!

Awesome video 👍😎. I remember everything in the video ❤️. The 70s were awesome 😎

the only thing missing i see was the gold maple leaf drinking glasses. always loved the look of them. and boy was the kitchen decorated with mushroom stuff.

Absolutely the best screen shot ever for any video. Been there done that. Brought back so many memories.

@shiroibasketshoes

2 ай бұрын

It should not be glorified. Children are banned from looking at adult magazines for. a reason.

I still have a few Playboy magazines from 1965 when I was 12. I hung out with an older boy who would pilfer them from the store while I waited outside. Great memories 😃😃

I used Columbia House to make collections of 8 tracks, cassettes, and cds. They sure were a cheap way to get a bunch of music. We had the heavy pine furniture in the family room and you were right, it was solid and lasted a looong time even with a large family. Bought it at Sears and also got replacement cushions for it when the original ones wore out. Still have mom's pyrex bowls and casserole dishes. Stuff was really built well then.

I was born in March 1963 and I was glad to of been part of that great era. I was in a Children's Home from 1976 to 1979 in Cheltenham Gloucestershire England and me and my friend Stephen used to collect the Look In TV guide for youngsters and in the middle each week there was a poster of a pop star. We would cut the posters out and put them on our dormatory wall. In the end we had over 75 posters on our wall.

As a teenager in the '70s, we lived in a trailer for a while, which was cold in winter. Lots of crocheted blankets, wall hangings, and window covers...no theme, and none were alike. I had a 8 track recorder, and could make my own mixes, or record tv audio. Eight track used a moving head to go from track to track, and no two players moved the exact same distance, so you would get " ghosts" from time to time ( bleedover from adjacent tracks). You'd have to wedge paper under rhe tape sometimes. I remember reading a science fiction short story in a school newspaper....at the end of the story, there was the credit" originally printed in Playboy"...the story was about a dystopian future society, and not in any way porn...

As a 70's kid, i proudly collected Wacky Packages, although some of them were rather dank.

You forgot about bottlecaps. Collecting bottlecaps was huge in the 70s, probably because they were cheap or free and a lot of people were broke.

@bryanv4081

2 ай бұрын

Now that's something I DID collect!

Beer Cans? lol we were NOT allowed, and so POP cans!

i collected beer cans, comics, and star wars trading cards. i never went too far out of my way to collect stamps and coins, but i did have a small collection of those. i don't consider toys i played with as being a collection any more than the clothes i wore, and i doubt dad considered a garage full of tools he used as a collection.

I collected pretty girls. I wish I had saved some of them. I still have their old pictures. Maybe Legacy Box can bring them back to life. I too, was fascinated by mushrooms in the ‘70’s

Beer can collecting was bigger than any of these. Plus, many who started collecting them back then still do today. The BCCA still has thousands of members and an annual convention.