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I Want To Be An Apple Store. Wait A Minute I Am Almost Grown
Up! - Pictures From The Nearly Ready To Open Apple Store In
Palo Alto
Things have really changed since our first report
about the construction of the Apple Store in Palo Alto - home
to Stanford University and Apple's visionary CEO, Steve Jobs.
When we
last visited the site it was just a boarded up shell of
a building - like something destroyed during a riot. In actual
fact the building that used to be located on the spot was
a cooking equipment store that had a cooking school attached.
Perhaps one of the novice cooks got carried away with an over
enthusiastic flambe, because the cooking store burned down.
A week or so ago I drove by the location and
it was all stylishly boarded up, and finishing brush strokes
of dark black paint were being applied to the plywood. It
reminded me of the scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey when the
black obelisk appears one day in the midst of unenlightened
apes sparking the beginning of civilization. By the time I
got back to the area (some time later), with a digital camera
in tow, they had painted the Apple logo on the front and added
the web site addresses. Things are moving right along at a
rapid pace, and the hardwood floor is all put down. Theoretically,
Apple has set the Grand Opening as 10 days from now, on October
6th at 10:00AM (thank you Apple for choosing a decent hour).
It looks like they may make this date, but it will be touch
and go. For more information on the Palo Alto store visit
Apple's
Web Site
This roving reporter took his digital camera
down to University Ave to check out the store and snapped
the pictures below. I was closely observed by the security
personnel Apple has hired to keep the overly curious away,
and in fact was pursued by one of the burly men half way back
to the car. Made us feel like Russian spies ...
For our previous report on the Palo Alto Apple
Store
click here
Almost Ready And Set To Go - The Apple Palo Alto Store
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Looking east down University Ave. Apple
logo partially obscured by tree. Click on image for
larger version.
Straight on looking at the front. Click
on image for larger version.
Looking west down University Ave, from
the Apple Store. This is the bustling part of the Ave,
which is busy both morning, noon and night. Stanford
University is about 1.5 miles to the left ahead. Click
on image for larger version.
A drive by shooting - Apple security
personal would not let us get a shot of the insides
through the front door.
And A Few Shots From Seybold SF
Waiting for the Apple Keynote to start
Jobs in da house. Jobs gives main Keynote
speaker, Phil Schiller, an introduction. Originally
he had planned to do this from Paris. Since the Apple
Expo from Paris was cancelled, Jobs made a surprise
personal appearance.
Because of the destruction in the east
and a slowing economy, the Seybold conference was
very poorly attended. Both exhibitors and attendees
stayed away. Some of the conference visitors made
their feelings known about this country's current
War footing
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