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New Mexico’s governor announced new reopening guidelines on Wednesday, May 13. As of Saturday, May 16, retail shops and some other gathering places, such as churches, may reopen with limited capacity and safety restrictions such as masks. I’d been wanting to document some of the closed shopping and tourist areas, so decided on Thursday that I would photograph some of them. It will be interesting to compare the landscapes a week from now as people tentatively venture out and a month from now when perhaps they will be more or less tentative. Pandemic history unfolding. [Click on images to view full sized.]
Shuttered Coronado Mall 
Albuquerque Uptown – No admittance 
Entrance to a very quiet Old Town 
Closed and quiet 
Empty Old Town Streets 
San Felipe de Neri – Church built in 1793, still an active parish 
For more than 300 years, “the spiritual heart of Albuquerque” 
Closed – Public Masses resuming May 23-24, 2020 
Old Town – Shuttered shops 
Shopping alternatives 
Maybe later for coffee 
Come back later 
Hope, love and faith – pandemic blessings 
Shuttered Albuquerque Museum 
Museum’s Sculpture Garden 
Memories of better times
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Madeline: https://www.abqjournal.com/1456620/masks-catch-on-across-abq.html
Your photos are beautiful and make me nostalgic for all those special ABQ places. It does look haunting without the usual crowds and activity. I hope people are appropriately cautious when they return to the streets.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1456620/masks-catch-on-across-abq.html
Smart idea, Jeanne. A friend in Washington DC recently did something simillar with the National Mall and other normally robust, but recently empty public spaces in the nation’s Capital. I wonder how many commercial videographers are using this opportunity to shoot HD vacant-city stock footage for future dystopic films and TV shows.
…or just to show locations without crowds blocking the view!