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04/05/2020
Stay Healthy, Wichita
A shopping center marquee wishing passersby good health as COVID-19 makes its way to Wichita. Aaron Peterka, Northeastern University -
04/03/2020
Stay Home
While temporarily closed during the Kansas Lockdown, this local car wash sign advised passing motorists to re-think their travel plans if they were feeling sick. #NortheasternJOTPY -
2020-04-03
Arts-and-Crafts-to-Go
Customers who had placed online orders could use the new "curbside pick-up" service in a rather unique shopping experience for arts and crafts that reduced in-person contact, and by extension, the virus's transmission. #NortheasternJOTPY *Northeastern University -
2020-04-03
New Market Square, West Wichita, Kansas
Despite most stores and shops being shuttered in the popular New Market Square, both Best Buy and Michael's Arts and Crafts maintained a curb-side pick up service for customers who had placed online orders. #NortheasternJOTPY *Northeastern University -
2020-04-03
Workouts Called on Account of Virus
This image of west Wichita's sprawling Northwest YMCA captures the vacant parking lot and the abandoned rock climbing wall that would normally be crawling with visitors. However, the well-publicized closures did not deter some patrons from attempting to gain entry before being sorely disappointed by the signs posted on the doors; a site witnessed just moments after this photograph was taken. #NortheasternJOTPY *Northeastern University -
2020-04-03
Quiet Lunch Hour, Part II
West Wichita's Hurricane Sports Bar and Grill, facing west. All neighboring businesses in this small shopping center alongside 13th Street shut down, including the ICT Bike Shop and the Great Clips Hair Salon, since the state had deemed them non-essential businesses. #NortheasternJOTPY *Northeastern University -
2020-04-03
Quiet Lunch Hour
The Hurricane Sports Bar and Grill on 13th Street in Wichita, Kansas, sits empty during what would normally be a busy lunch hour. The banner on the far right indicates the restaurant's open carry-out and delivery services. #NortheasternJOTPY *Northeastern University -
05/01/2020
May the Force Be With You, Wichita
Taken in the final days of Kansas's lockdown, movie theaters such as this one would have to wait several more weeks before finally reopening. Promising to see its patrons soon, the theater's marquee reminds Wichitans to find their inner Jedi while confronting the dark side: COVID-19. -
05/02/2020
Facebook Services
With in-person church services suspended beginning in March, churches like this one in east Wichita, Kansas, switched to Facebook to carry on in the face of COVID's spread. -
2020-04-05
Steak, Discounts, and Toilet Paper
This particular restaurant on Maize Road in Wichita, Kansas, demonstrates the various strategies businesses employed to remain viable as COVID-19's easy transmission forced many restaurants to close their dine-in rooms and switch to online, carry-out, and delivery services. Along with the 15% discount for online ordering, this restaurant added the rather interesting incentive of a free roll of toilet paper for each order, thereby highlighting the acute hygiene product shortage that emptied store shelves across the United States in the wake of the virus-inspired "panic buying" that gripped the country. Photo taken by Aaron Peterka -
2020-04-03
Support Your Local Auto Shop
With COVID-19 forcing numerous businesses across the nation to close, automotive shops such as this one in Wichita, Kansas, remained open during the lockdown, having been declared an "essential business" by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly's administration. Despite being open, local small businesses buckled under the strain of dramatically reduced customer traffic and revenue; a problem that still persists as Kansas, and the country, continue to face COVID-19's devastating physical and economic impacts. This sign along Tyler Road portrays one way that local businesses attempted to survive the economic malaise created by the virus's outbreak. As of May 4, 2020, the official end of Kansas's stay-at-home order, this discount appears to have been discontinued. Photo taken by Aaron Peterka -
2020-04-03
Stay Strong, Kansas
Taken near the intersection of Central and Tyler Rd. in west Wichita, Kansas, this sign encourages Kansans to hold fast during the lockdown. At the time, only drive-thru service was available, reflecting the reduced-contact, socially-distanced measures implemented by restaurants to limit the virus's spread. Photo taken by Aaron Peterka on 04/03/2020, four days after Kansas's government-ordered "shelter-in-place" order went into effect. -
2020-05-11
Tulips in Spring 2020
Spring, Leawood Kansas, mother's day. While taking walks we get to enjoy the beauty of Spring in Kansas. On mother's day i wanted to paint the beauty of tulips, and somehow the coronavirus become part of the beauty of nature... present, silent, intrusive.... and still part of our lives... in spite of our efforts to avoid it. The Spring is blooming in 2020, beautifully, while covid-19 is all around us. -
2020-05-02
Rock Your Mask, Wichita.
One of a series of COVID-19-related messages from the same electronic billboard on Central Avenue in east Wichita, Kansas. This particular announcement encourages Wichitans to "rock their mask" by personalizing their PPE while doing their part to slow the virus's spread, as the young girl featured in the message does with her customized Wichita State Shockers mask. Image taken on 05/02/2020. -
2020-05-01
Playground Closed
Sign posted in front of one of several playgrounds at the popular Sedgwick County Park in west Wichita, Kansas. All playground equipment had been roped off during the state's "stay-at-home" order. Sedgwick County, Kansas: creator Photo taken by Aaron Peterka, Northeastern University Image taken on 05/01/2020. -
2020-05-02
Find a Cure
A marquee sign along Hillside Avenue in east Wichita, Kansas, with simple instructions for how to weather the pandemic. Image taken on 05/02/2020. -
2020-04-03
New Market Square, Wichita, Kansas
Looking across the usually busy New Market Square during the first week of Kansas's "shelter-in-place" order issued on March 30, 2020, which closed all non-essential businesses in the state. *Aaron Peterka, Northeastern University -
2020-04-03
Stay Strong, Wichita
An electronic billboard at a shopping center along Maize Road in west Wichita, Kansas, encouraging citizens to weather the crisis and look forward to better days. The sign incorporates the city's emblem with a blue heart added in its center. *Aaron Peterka, Northeastern University -
2020-03-23
Iowa Tribe Appeals to Businesses to Help Keep the Community Safe
States essential categories of businesses that can continue operating. "Until further notice anyone who doesn't work in the specific areas deemed essential categories will NOT be allowed in tribal buildings...Wash hands every 20 minutes, unless farming/fieldwork." #IndigenousStories