San Francisco Apple Store - Grand Opening
Early afternoon and evening
February 27, 2004

The line for the grand opening continued to grow on Friday, the day before the store opened, and construction workers continued to toil to finish the very last detail of the store.

10_front

about 4 p.m. there were just 6-7 persons
in line

11_eating

Ulan and his friend eat dinner

12_kiosk

work on the kiosk

13_rehearse

inside the store, the employees lined the
glass stairway and entryway to
rehearse the first visitors' entry

14_front

passersby gawked at the store

15_tour2

the friends and family of the store staff
visited at 6 p.m.

16_tour

family and friends of store staff
tour the store

17_ulan

Ulan and his protegé watch DVDs

18_dvd

later in the evening, Ulan and his friend
Steve watch DVDs on the Powerbook
sitting on the car roof

19_backlit

the passerby crowd around 8 p.m.

20_matt

Matt came from Scotland just for the grand
opening, and brought his 17" Powerbook

21_thomas

Thomas sets up iChatAV for a
connection to another Mac enthusiast

22_instreet

one lane of the street was blocked off,
and became one place to set up your
camping chair

23_lineup

a tight group of persons about 40 back
from the front of the line

24_table

some groups brought tables