The assignment was to photograph Provo’s historic downtown. In this case, I found historic to also mean decaying, like the vacant storefronts along Center Street (above). There were a few signs of life near University Avenue, like Chelsea Marvell on a date at the Smokehouse…

…but most of Center Street was in poor shape. As an example, this Tribune machine, loaded with yellowed copies of our competition’s edition from three weeks ago:

None of these were published. The story ran with a photo from the reporter. Here’s the page: