GAL History GAL Convention Group Photos Here's a gallery of sixteen GAL Convention group photos from 1978 to 2017. Click on a picture to enlarge it, and find yourself, your buddies, or a famous luthier! Unfortunately, there were six years when we weren't able to get a group photo (or we hadn't thought of it yet). Since the mid-1980s, the group photo has been a feature at every GAL Convention. 1978 – Winfield, Kansas 1980 – San Francisco, California 1982 – Estes Park, Colororado 1986 – Tacoma, Washington 1988 – Vermillion, South Dakota 1990 – Tacoma, Washington 1992 – Vermillion, South Dakota 1995 – Tacoma, Washington 1998 – Tacoma, Washington 2001 – Tacoma, Washington 2004 – Tacoma, Washington 2006 – Tacoma, Washington 2008 – Tacoma, Washington 2011 – Tacoma, Washington 2014 – Tacoma, Washington 2017 – Tacoma, Washington
