“The wait is over. After months of secret renovations, Apple Computers [sic] opened the doors to its Los Gatos retail store on Sept. 6 to a crowd of hundreds of Apple fanatics wanting to be the first to experience the new store,” Shannon Burkey reports for The Los Gatos Weekly-Times.
“People began lining up at 11 a.m. for the 6 p.m. opening, and the line snaked down N. Santa Cruz Avenue then turned and went a block down Main Street,” Burkey reports.
“Once inside, shoppers were cheered and given high-fives by Apple employees. Each person also received a free T-shirt – a tradition at all store openings – for their patience in waiting in line,” Burkey reports. “Those waiting to get in jammed on their iPods, typed away on their Macs, took pictures with their iPhones and compared Apple products with their neighbors.”
“‘This is a pretty exciting day for Los Gatos, and the energy of the people is electric,’ said Mayor Joe Pirzynski. ‘This store is going to anchor N. Santa Cruz. This is the kind of service our people want.’ …The Los Gatos store is the 192nd opened by the company; store No. 191 was opened earlier the same evening in Louisville,” Burkey reports.
More in the full article, with photo, here.
Great …. now if they will just put one in Santa Cruz
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another apple store opens and one step closer to WORLD DOMMINATION, ooh boy…but i don’t like apple dictating my hardware choices so limited like glossy screens are the most annoying sons of bitches to use. of course mdn will IP ban me and others for anything non fluffy comments, but I can come back here endlessly because i am a bot master, apple is GOING UP! I wish mdn would grow up WAY TO GO APPLE!!!
that’s one expensive town, that los gatos. pretty though. i especially like the little car dealership (silicon valley auto?) that sells bentleys, lambos, ferraris and astons!
by the way fellow shareholders… AAPL has very few stores in Europe. It’s a huge opportunity.
Who is the ass-clown that keeps posting about MDN banning them on every single story? It’s really getting tired, dude.
By the way, Apple is not dictating your hardware choices. They don’t force you to buy anything. If you don’t like what Apple offers, don’t buy it. I’d much prefer that you go buy some beige Dell machine with Windows Vista so you can get the hell away from here.
Two in one day. That’s impressive.
I wonder if everyone will get over the “Apple fever” eventually?
You know, the lust for hardware, waiting in lines and such for expensive hardware that sometimes quite doesn’t meet one’s needs. I know I did, I walked into the Apple Store yesterday and the lure was just not there. I compared the products intelligently and decided somethings were not for me or relly didn’t have a need for them. I don’t know what it is, Apple just doesn’t “do it” for me anymore. I feel like a excult member or something. Is that the secret to Apple marketing?
@ Jimbo von Winskinheimer
No doubt. It’s getting old.
More stores the better. Love to see things in the news that might help my stock go up a bit more.
Is this a re-opening?
Who is the ass-clown that keeps posting about MDN banning them on every single story? It’s really getting tired, dude.
It really is, but I think the dude has a issue with mdn banning people and deleting comments even from good people like they are children with a game machine. It’s obvious they can come back whenever they wish so it really doesn’t matter. They apparantly have trained a lot of others to use ip filters, proxies, auto-cookie deletion and Tor networks to post here whenever they wish. It’s the censorship of nothing but fluffy comments here at mdn thats got them pissed and they have been at it for years more or less. So go ahead and live in the rose colored glasses world of mdn if you wish, but others will keep the fight for free speech alive so you can one day speak your mind like your doing now.
I would think that a Los Gatos reporter would know better than to refer to Apple, Inc. as “Apple Computers.” (Los Gatos is an iPod-throw from Cupertino.)
Other local silicon valley Apple stores include Valley Fair, Palo Alto and the Stanford Shopping Center (mini store.)
Love to see things in the news that might help my stock go up a bit more.
All the experts are predicting US resession after the holidays. Which means less people are going to buy toys, which means Apple stock will tank with the rest of the market. So plan your profit taking carefully.
busting heads for real
I was at the Louisville opening. The store was packed with people. They had the new iPods out except the 160GB iPod classic. An employee said they were still waiting on those. I would guess they had around 2000 people come through the store that evening. They didn’t open until 6 p.m.
@Animal act,
Aside from the fact that you are the dude we are talking about, you need to wake up. Free speech is not a right on a private site such as MDN. They have the right to edit/delete your comments. They have the right to ban you. They have the right to do whatever they want on their site. If you don’t like it, leave. Assuming that you are a U.S. citizen for a moment, if you are trying to apply your constitutional rights to what you can say or do on this site is idiocy. The constitution does not protect your right to free speech on someone else’s web site.
More clever marketing, for a free tee-shirt* there are a few hundred people in line, for every person in the line (once it gets past a few) probably ten passers by ask what the queue is for.
@Fairy God Mother. Most of us got over Apple fever long time ago, or never had it in the first place, we just like stuff that works as advertised.
Matte screen cover for gloss screens – $20, gloss screen cover for matte screens – priceless.
*Do they still do discounts and freebies?
@Fairy God Mother:
Congrats to you for “getting over Apple”. Did you decide that Windows or Linux or something else worked better for you, or did you just quit using technology altogether? I don’t see it your way. I will gladly stand in line for a product that is head and shoulders over the rest. I’ll gladly pay more (although if you do a side-by-side comparsion, you’ll see that you don’t pay more) for something that is much better than average. That’s why I have a job.
Perhaps you are just speaking about always having to have the latest technology. I can understand that point of view. I have a beautiful 24 inch iMac. When the new version came out, there were a few improvements, but I didn’t have the need to go sell mine to get the latest. Same holds true for my iPods.
However, if you are insinuating that Apple products cost more for a comparable machine, or that they are not worth the money, you lose me. You pay for quality when you buy Apple. If you decide to go buy a Zune or a Dell with Windows Vista because you perceive a monetary savings, you may save money, but what is your personal product satisfaction worth?
Your a complete an utter idiot.
Is there a terms of use of this site? NO!
Is there a registration process to agree to concerning content posting on this site? NO!
Is there any sort of rules? NO!
This is a free and open posting forum with no rules or requirements WHAT SO EVER.
Until that changes, people post what they want to post. If the moderators or owners what to restrict posts to comments of the story, or fluffy Apple posts they need to state the rules. Violaters then can get banned.
Apparantly they don’t state the rules and the problem is they are IP banning people according to whim.
I’m a Mac fan just like you are, but getting banned for a negative comment that doesn’t agree with the sites “fluffy Apple” viewpoint isn’t just cause, because they don’t state the rules for posting.
Since there are no rules, they, just like you. Will have to tolerate posts from everyone. That’s how this site is set up and how the owners chose to run it. With no rules.
If you don’t like free speech, move to China. They would be glad to tell you what to think.
I also wish the “ass-clowns” would leave, and I also hope some of the other dumb asses would “get over” posting anti-Apple comments on a 100% Apple site.
I think I speak for the vast majority here when I say Apple does “do it” for us.
“Your a complete an utter idiot.”
Complete your contractions before uttering that someone else is an idiot.
“This is a free and open posting forum with no rules or requirements WHAT SO EVER.”
Keep telling yourself that.
Why are you here? Is it because you’ve (note the use of the apostrophe) been banned from every other site on the internet?
Your misplaced anger mixed with naiveté is mildly entertaining. Please start your own site. We have comments ready.
@ jo jo the dancer
My thoughts Exactly
Congrats to you for “getting over Apple”. Did you decide that Windows or Linux or something else worked better for you, or did you just quit using technology altogether?
Hmmm, I’m not certain that I can discern the difference between using Windows and no longer using technology, as it is sometimes easier or indeed essential to use an abacus and shout the result across the room.
My biggest pain in the ass of the moment is WINS! I didn’t like it when I first encountered it back in 1996 and I now wish to meet the person who invented it so I can beat them to death with a cricket bat. Actually, a cricket bat with several nails through the end. And the nails would be rusty. And dipped in tetanus. And possibly avian flu just to make sure.
@iNick
Yeah, I’m worried Monterey will get one first.
Hey Jimbo,
Don’t take any crap off of those slimey little vomit spewing scumbags! Wow, that sure felt great exercising my right to free speech. That stupid pissant was right about China. I sure am glad I don’t live there.
OK, no angst here. Where the hell is this place?