This week marks twenty years since the first Apple Retail Stores opened their doors. From suburban malls to landmark architecture projects in the world’s top cities, the story of Apple Stores is one no individual can tell. It took a global team, still growing today, to shape a crazy idea from dream to reality and prove the skeptics wrong. Here are twenty highlights from along the way.
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!["In New York, the walk begins at the Apple Store at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street and heads straight into the park." New York Times, Today at Apple [AR]T Launch](https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/05/20quotes_2019.jpg?quality=82&strip=all "20 years of Apple Stores in 20 quotes")
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