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Germantown: Party On Hold (9/24/01)
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Heads up, Memphis-area Mac fans-- if you're about to get in line for this Saturday's Germantown Apple store grand opening, you should be aware that you're going to be even earlier than you planned. Whereas Apple's web site had indicated that the store would be opening this Saturday, September 29th, faithful viewer The M@d H@tter just pointed out that the happy event has been postponed-- so sayeth MacCentral. For those of you wondering if the Mac community can survive going over two weeks without a retail grand opening, take deep breaths and remember that we've done it before. Heck, we survived over two months between the openings of the Glendale/McLean stores and the second run starting in August; we can go three weeks standing on our heads.
As for why the Germantown opening has been postponed, no reason was given; we can only hope it wasn't another "accidental" flood like the one that made the Plano store all soggy and hard to light. Alert viewers will recall that Apple has been having a bit of a tussle with the Germantown signage laws, which include such arbitrary restrictions as a ban on store signs that include images of food items-- we imagine that's sort of a problem when a company's decades-old and world-famous corporate logo just happens to be an apple with a bite taken out of it. For all we know, the delay is due to Apple's replacement signs not being completed in time. Or maybe Steve is opposed to opening a store on an occasion as sacrosanct as International Rabbit Day.
Anyway, if you still plan on getting in line, more power to you, but there's no word on when the store will eventually open; it could be months from now, so be sure to pack a sandwich or two. On the plus side, you'd be virtually guaranteed of being first in the store, provided you can drag your weatherbeaten, dehydrated, malnourished near-carcass over the threshold. If you can, it's party time!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/24/01 episode: September 24, 2001: Happy Autumn! And Happy Seybold-- providing that Mac OS X 10.1 arrives tomorrow as planned. Meanwhile, the Germantown retail store opening is postponed for undisclosed reasons, and those lovable jokers at Xtrem continue to innovate like crazed weasels on crack...
Other scenes from that episode: 3317: Pretty Leaves & A Zippy OS (9/24/01) Wave bye-bye to summer, kiddies, 'cause it's gone, gone, gone; at some point over the weekend, we officially clicked over into autumn (well, at least in our hemisphere), which means the days of beach volleyball and backyard cookouts are now over... 3319: The Anti-Vowel Brigade (9/24/01) You know, we've spent so much time recently talking about the possible speeds and technological advances likely to surface in Apple's next Power Macs, we figured it would make a nice change of pace to check in on a real innovator for a change...
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