The Great Escape-In

The Kalamazoo Bicycle Club hosted the 1978 national convention of the League of American Wheelmen (L.A.W.--now called the League of American Bicyclists). We called it Escape '78. The convention's first event was The Great Escape-In, a mass ride from Kalamazoo Valley Community College to the convention's headquarters at Western Michigan University.

Dad caught this picture of the group--riders from around the country, some of whom had ridden to Kalamazoo from their homes--somewhere between the two schools. This is probably Drake Road.

Yup: I've been playing with the scanner....