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Merchandise in Quarantine

Title (Dublin Core)

Merchandise in Quarantine

Description (Dublin Core)

In Cambridge, MA, we depend on small businesses, whether they’re corner stores, beauty parlors, restaurants, or specialized outlets. This picture is the lattermost, a music store called Cheapo Records, which I visited often before quarantine. Places like this are extremely important for both conserving history and discovering new music (without algorithms).

COVID-19 has only exacerbated the danger Cheapo and others are facing due to rising rents. This picture I took before they reopened spoke to me because it shows how the hiatus wasn’t expected to be this long; the merchandise is left outside, behind an iron curtain, in uncertain indefinance.
Photograph, taken by myself.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 2, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Caitlyn Green

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Caitlyn Green

Type (Dublin Core)

photo

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Business & Industry
English Community & Community Organizations
English Consumer Culture (shopping, dinning...)
English Economy
English Entertainment: Movies, Theater, etc.

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Boston
small business
music store
local business
history
Massachusetts

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

small business
Boston
Cambridge
music
uncertainty
local

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/17/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

09/17/2020
10/27/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

05/02/2020

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This item was submitted on August 17, 2020 by Caitlyn Green using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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