International Plaza
grand opening
International Plaza
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| Apple Store at Tampa Florida -- September 15, 2001 |
| I was in Orlando on Business for the past 2 weeks (away from the family
during this time of crisis and pain, alas), but happened to be only 70
miles away from the Tampa store grand openning. I had already been
to the NorthShore grand opening (see my pix) and it was fun so decided
to do it again. I arrived at the mall at 9:10am for the 10am opening.
The mall has a web page.
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| The attendance wasn't as good as my last grand opening. It should be noted that yesterday we had a tropical storm that downed trees and power lines through most of Florida north of Tampa. Also many people are not feeling very celebratory due to the terrorist attack on Tuesday. |
| Photos and story by Tadd Torborg |
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a1.jpg - Tampa Florida 115.24 Kb 1792 x 567 |
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a3lmall.jpg This is the end of the mall where the Apple store is located. It's actually inside the entrance at the right side of this photo. 155.88 Kb 1789 x 662 |
a4rmall.jpg Here is the other end of the mall. Note the non-apple tree. 192.44 Kb 1789 x 597 |
a5apple.jpg The apple store is on the upper level just outside Dillards as shown on this map. 51.28 Kb 486 x 634 |
a6dir.jpg Here are both levels for your perusal. 188.59 Kb 1457 x 932 |
m1.jpg I did this walking tour of the mall later in the morning but I'll include it here for completeness. 539.92 Kb 1792 x 1200 |
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m6.jpg The Apple store is upstairs from Spencers in this pic. 620.06 Kb 1792 x 1200 |
m7.jpg Yes, in this mall they have a Jaguar as a display car. This is a bit more 'deluxe' than the mall near my home. 557.41 Kb 1792 x 1200 |
m8.jpg - 9:12AM At shortly after nine the line is about 50 people. 75.31 Kb 865 x 493 |
p0012219.jpg - 9:36am 67.20 Kb 791 x 521 |
p0012220.jpg - 9:38am 102.32 Kb 600 x 896 |
p0012221.jpg - 9:36am 142.73 Kb 1200 x 771 |
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p0012224.jpg - 9:59am 46.10 Kb 895 x 323 |
p0012225.jpg - 9:59am I didn't do a very good job of catching the length of the line. It was hard since I was queued up near the front this time. I think there were about 300 people there because of the number of people that eventually ended up outside the store after it was open and filled to capacity. 75.95 Kb 896 x 488 |