On an unusually warm October afternoon, witches, wizards, vampires, angels, devils promenaded their finery for block after block accompanied by the beating of drums. There were enough pint-sized superheroes (and heroines) to save Metropolis many times over.


The parade ended at Washington Market Park where the costumed crowd boogied to the Monster Mash, collected candy at an eerie graveyard and climbed aboard a ghostly pirate

ship (the red boat transformed). As night fell, the trick-or-treaters made the rounds of neighborhood stores.