Mike and I were in the Ozone Parade without the band one year. The article was published on November 1 so I guess the parade must have been on Halloween of 1975. I don't know why the band wasn't playing that year, but after doing two years of almost falling off of trucks maybe we'd had enough of that.
But I remember Mike asking me if I wanted to go ahead and be in the parade anyway, and I said sure, so the two of us took part with him driving the van (I don't remember who or what he was portraying that year) and me hanging out the passenger window in my getup. I had assembled an elaborate costume involving a gas mask I'd bought at an army surplus store, the mortar board hat I'd gotten from Tim after I'd graduated high school, which was adorned with a mirror-strip and a doctor's examining mirror; a pair of gloves, and holding a copy of Orwell's 1984 and pointing to it with the other hand, accusingly and with an attitude! And we drove down the street in the parade like that, and some photographer from the Michigan Daily thought it was a good shot, and so I got published. "These Funny Folk" was ME folks!
this was Mike's blue van and I think I can just make out Mike in a hat behind me in the driver's seat. Unfortunately the paper is very old and badly yellowed and unfortunately there was a crease right on the photo. And although I filtered it with Photoshop, this is about the best I could get of it. Not too bad I guess... at least it didn't crumble to dust yet!
-Hugh