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Collected Item: “"We Got This" Marquee, Paradise Rock Club (Boston, May 2020)”

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"We Got This" Marquee, Paradise Rock Club (Boston, May 2020)

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photographs

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Photos of The Paradise Rock Club, a music venue in Boston, Massachusetts, in May 2020. The marquee of the venue, which closed in the middle of March as part of the state's precautions against COVID-19, reads "We Got This" and "Thank U Doctors Nurses First Responders." The Paradise opened in 1977 and is located near Boston University campus and the neighborhood of Allston.

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music venues, first responders

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Jim McGrath

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2020-05-12
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