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Pike Place Market
The Pike Place Market’s history is as colorful and rich as the city of Seattle. Its 100 years of operation in nine acres of area include thousands of only one of its kind and remarkable stories — stories of migration, imprisonment, gentrification and urban restoration — that makes clear why exactly Pike Place Market is known as "The Soul of Seattle."
It was the time of 1906 and 1907, when the price of onions started to touch the sky and became almost tenfold. Annoyed people, unhappy with paying so high price, knew that it was the result of middlemen between the farmers and consumers.
So, they found out a person in the city known as Thomas Reveille. Thomas Reveille suggested that a ban on such sky high prices can be put only if they established a market that would enable farmers to sell their product directly to the consumers. The theme was known as "Meet the Producer directly".
Based on the same theme, the market was opened in the year 1907. On its first day, some eight farmers came into the market with their wagons. They were expecting at least 10,000 consumers. But all their stuff was sold in a few hours and thousand of consumers returned home without buying anything. To handle this situation, the first market building was constructed in August, 1907.
Since than the market follows the same theme and now, it is known as one of the most famous markets in America.
- Address:
85 Pike Street, Seattle, Washington 98101
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