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Collected Item: “Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek. March 2020”

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Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek. March 2020

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photographs

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A Campolindo HS photography class assignment was to take photos of some nearby location that tells a story. My senior decided to procrastinate and ended up needing to complete the assignment during the early days of quarantine. A trip to a normally very busy Broadway Plaza shopping center in Walnut Creek on a Saturday turned out to be the perfect location. The only people we saw out there was a man and his son riding bikes past this center fountain area. In one of the pictures, you'll see the Apple store in the distance, completely dark and vacant. It looks like a ghost town. It's not this vacant even on holidays recognized by retail stores.

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#sanfranciscobayarea, #BroadwayPlaza, #Quarantine2020, #COVID19, #vacantduringshoppinghours, #ghosttown, #CampoClassof2020, #Friday, #Spring

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Kelly Gagnon, Class of 2020

Give this story a date.

2020-03-20
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