In 1986 the AAPA celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding with a convention in Tampa, Florida. Ivan Snyder recently found negatives from the pictures he took there and turned them into electronic files. Dave Tribby added some scans of his own and uploaded 95 images to a Google Photos album.
You can read Les Boyer's report on the convention taken from the November 1986 issue of American Amateur Journalist.
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