Photos: Apple Store, Boylston Street inside and out

Thursday, May 15, 2008 · 9:16 am · 18 Comments

The new Apple Store on Boylston Street in Boston, Apple’s largest U.S. retail store to date, has been revealed by The Boston Globe.

The three-floor store will become Apple’s largest retail store in the United States when it opens on today, May 15th at 6pm EDT.

Until today, the store had been covered with a Green Monster-like facade that said “coming soon.”

See the photos here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Basil Ganglia" for the heads up.]

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18 Comments

almux

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:24 am · Reply

This “trend” approach is really bear it’s fruits… (apples for sure!)

almux

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:25 am · Reply

correction: is = does

Macaday

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:26 am · Reply

I saw Photo No 2 on Reuters yesterday – it’s a work of art….

Macaday

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:29 am · Reply

And photo No 9 says it large: Macs are headed for business…

DLMeyer

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:30 am · Reply

Is it worth going in to get the T-shirt? What the heck, isn’t that what retirement means? All the time in the world and not enough money to buy a new T-shirt?

jtc

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:32 am · Reply

hmm 6pm I should stop by after work and check it out… though I’m likely better off taking the train in so I am not to get flooded with ridiculous boston traffic especially with the masses of people flocking the store. Maybe I’d get a tshirt

Famous Grouse

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:49 am · Reply

I think Picture 10 has some hidden meeting. My grandfather uses a Mac, too. Of course, I’m 43 and he’s 95. Better yet, he bought 100 shares back in ’98 at $6.

Zune Tang®

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:50 am · Reply

Yawn. I miss the Tiki hut themed Dell kiosk at the mall—it even had a grass roof because it replaced Ned’s Hawaiian Smoothies. As I recall it only took a week to convert it to a retail technology powerhouse. Those were good smoothies though. I checked around and I believe it was the only Dell kiosk with a Tiki hut theme so it was kind of special. It’s where I picked up my Ditty after someone returned it. Half price! Score!

You MAC lemmings can have your elitist fancy-pants-glass-stairway stores. If you ask me there sure seems to be a lot of overhead cost in running a store like that. Maybe that’s why MACs cost so much more than PCs. Besides, I can build my own PC from parts I can buy on the internet for a quarter the price of a MAC and it will run Windows.

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Coldstream

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:58 am · Reply

Zune Tang – thats the point.
Build it for a quarter the price of a Mac, and it will run Windows!!

qka

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 10:10 am · Reply

Of course, when your stores have the highest sales$/square foot in retail, you can afford stairs like that.

And they are easier to clean than that thatch roof, which gets shabby looking after a year or two.

Follower

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 10:29 am · Reply

@jtc: I don’t think you could get anywhere near the inside of the store tonight if you tried. ifoapplestore.com reports that the line started forming last night. My beloved 4G iPod (or “iPod photo” as it was called at the time) recently had its hard drive die after years of heavy use, so I’m in the market for a new 80 GB iPod classic. I’m going to try to go by tomorrow after work — 24 hours after the opening — and even then I will not be surprised if the store ends up being packed.

Blue Dream

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 10:29 am · Reply

ZT…may I introduce you something called elegance, class, tastefulness, and creativeness.
Why don’t you ditty over to Pizza Hut to get your fill of a tiki hut theme…and, by the way, the dude who returned his ditty was the one who scored.

Super Furry Animal

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 11:35 am · Reply

” . . . if the store ends up being packed.”

Sounds more likely at the Apple Store on 14th Street and 9th Avenue in the lower west side of Manhattan.

MidWest Mac

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 12:22 pm · Reply

Okay, am I the only perv wondering what a hot woman in a skirt on that staircase just above me might look?

I see the glass is glazed or something, but still . . . it looks like you might want to make sure your wife or daughter where’s pants while shopping in Boston.