Welcome to Pipeguy.com
The Pipe Collectors Club of America, better known as PCCA, was started in 1984 as a way to interact with the hobby by offering information first, using a 32 page printed newsletter called The Smokers Pipeline. In addition to the newsletter, PCCA offered high grade products, mainly pipes, at club discounted prices and make available a selection of high grade products well beyond that offered by other retailers at the time (1984).
In the beginning we did charge a nominal fee for membership, after all, something had to pay for the cost of thousands of newsletters and photos, but this fee was dropped after about 5 years. PCCA went totally online in about 1994 when we dropped the printed newsletter and although we did publish two sites, pipeguy.com and pipesmoke.com, neither site was 100% information or 100% products.
PCCA was conceived in 1984 as a way to share information and offer the best products. Today, 2010 as this is being written, PCCA has changed somewhat, actually a lot, but knowledge and information are still the primary purpose of this effort rather than just being dedicated to quality products for sale.
-RCH
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Pipe Collectors Club of America
Established 1984
