Meet the Cruise Fans: 'You Can't Go Wrong for a Dollar'

If people are sitting in the median of Woodward Avenue in lawn chairs, it's no surprise why there are out there. They are here for the classic cars of the Woodward Dream Cruise. That's given.

But there's always something else to talk about, right?

Like Ed Meyers and Florence Hagel. They were sitting in the median, under a tree, in their lawn chairs, watching cars. But Meyers was wearing a too-small-for-his-head cap with brightly colored flowers printed on it. His lady friend, Hagel, was wearing pineapple-shaped glasses with a yellow tint.

You can't pass by these two without asking them what's up.

"I like to go to the dollar store down here," Meyers said. "I get these things. Everything is a dollar. You can't go wrong for a dollar."

Hagel said she wasn't sure whether the glasses offered ultraviolet protection, but that's not the point, she said. "They're funny, and I can still see out of them."

John Boarden of Detroit has been cruising Woodward since 1950. "I bought a Ford in 1950 and started cruising Woodward," he said. "All this wasn't here, but there seemed to be a drive-in every other block. I think that's where the term 'cruising' came from. They used to have signs that said: 'No Cruising through Drive-In.'

"It's changed so much," he said. "I don't know if it has changed for the good or the bad, but (the Woodward Dream Cruise) is the best thing to happen out here."