A bit of history on the Ada Picture Gallery

On Friday, May 27th, 1994, Michael Feldman replied to a posting in the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.ada: 

From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Software Development Mag
Date: 27 May 1994 22:01:12 -0400
Organization: George Washington University

In article <2s3im5$q8d@felix.seas.gwu.edu>,
Steven B. Opdahl  wrote:
>Of course, if you spelled it "Ada" then I'd know you meant that small
>city in south-central Oklahoma known for its horse breeding.

I was actually in that town last summer - it's about 200 miles north of
Dallas, and was the first night's stopping point for SunRayce 93.

I brought back a _great_ photo of a dark blue paddywagon with big
white letters on the side saying

   A d a   P o l i c e

Now, if only I could find the thing; I'd like to send a copy to Greg. :-)

Mike Feldman
I suggested Mike to send a scan of this photo the Magnus Kempe, to be added to the Ada WWW Server, and even to organize a photo contest for this kind of pictures... 

Date: Mon, 30 May 94 15:03:29 +0200
From: Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)
To: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
Subject: Ada Police photo (was: Re: Software Development Mag)
Organization: Dept. Computerwetenschappen K.U.Leuven

[...]

If you manage to find that photo, it would be nice if you could scan it
(or have it scanned in): we could put it somewhere in a less serious
part of the Ada WWW server (or the Ada-Belgium WWW server ...).

We could even organize a photo contest with "real" pictures with "Ada"
in it (although not "our" Ada ;-) ).  Somewhere, I must still have a
picture that one of my colleagues took of an advertisement in Spain for
motor oil called Ada.

Not everything related to Ada should be 100% serious, don't you think?

Dirk Craeynest ;-)
This initiated a thread on the creation of a collection of "Ada" pictures.

Another article mentioned: 


Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
From: kjk@swl.msd.ray.com (Keith Kucera {82644})
Subject: Re: Software Development Mag
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 17:55:49 GMT
Organization: Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, Mass.

[...]

I was in Ada, Alabama (just south of Montegomery) last year, and brought
back a picture of the ADA PACKAGE STORE, which I have on the wall of my
office.

--
K e i t h  K u c e r a      kjk@swl.msd.ray.com            Tewksbury, MA
The preceding are my own opinions, and not necessarily representative of
any group or organization, especially not my employer.
In the meantime, an Ada Picture Gallery has been created at the Ada WWW Server. Several of these images are also available in the Ada Picture Gallery on this server.

If you have an interesting picture to share, please e-mail it to me.

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Last update: 94/09/23.

Dirk Craeynest