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Last Costco run before shutdown

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Title (Dublin Core)

Last Costco run before shutdown

Description (Dublin Core)

It was two days after the NBA had shut down and the first day our school district had shut down. Not sure about what was to come next (and honestly pretty scared to go) I took on last trip to Costco to buy supplies for the lockdown of unknown duration that was about to begin. The scene was chaos, with the lines running the full length of the store. The most eerie part, though, was someone who decided to “play us off” in a sort of Titanic-style farewell to our old life.

Having endured the line for longer than I can remember, I chose to record the moment (which I felt would be one to remember.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 13, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Joshua Toth

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Joshua Toth

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

video

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Consumer Culture (shopping, dining...)

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Costco
groceries
hoarding
sound
sense
song

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

sensory history

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/02/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/10/2021
07/18/2021
08/05/2021

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on July 2, 2021 by Joshua Toth using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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