Pike Place Market
Everything I need to know about the Pike Place Market I learned when I was 14. All follow-up research has been done via the Internet. Deal. But truly, my memories are like crystal oracular balls, I know what's up and things can't have changed much since Year Y2K, yes? Pike! What a market that was! I was overwhelmed with fish! Gypsy women sold me a pink stone kaleidoscope and thuggish men gifted me with a freshly plucked peach. To think, the entire establishment has been with us since 1907! And Starbuck's founded nearby in 1971! The storied history of it all. And now: I saw restaurants, head shops, greengrocers, fishmongers, street vendors, saffron cloth-swathed mystery women and flying fish. Did you know that the Pike Place mascot is a bronze piggy bank named Rachel? But it's true! She oinks in contentment when a fish is thrown, and bellows in elation when a fish whacks a purchaser in the head. Named after the 1977 Island County prizewinner, passersby rub Rachel's snout for luck, which is the same thing I do when I'm in the mood for... fishery... and... fortune... in... Seattle.
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