30-Year Anniversary

I learned to dislike Black Friday more than 30 years ago because I had to get up early enough to get ahead of the shoppers and be at the front of the line when the doors opened.

The photo above shows a crowd entering the Lazarus store at Northland Mall when the doors opened on Black Friday, November 26, 1993.

I’m standing on a trash can to get elevated to show the size of the crowd. On-camera flash. 20mm lens.

Front page of The New York Times.

It wasn’t my first New York Times front page. Nor my last.

And, not my last Black Friday.

Happy shopping!