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Pike Place Market Seattle's Pike Place Market, with its familiar neon-lit clock and brass pig, is a renowned landmark, attracting millions of tourists and locals every year. Although the historical, cultural, and social value of the Market is rarely underestimated today, at the beginning of the 21st Century, it was not always so. Since its creation in 1907, plans to raze it and replace it with more "modern" facilities have been repelled several times. Thanks to the efforts of artists like Mark Tobey and architect-activists like Victor Steinbrueck, the Pike Place Market retains its character as an outlet for farmers, artists and craftspeople, merchants, restaurateurs, and performers. The Main Market, with street-level stalls and a subterranean warren of shops, stretches in an L-shape from 1st Avenue and Pike Street (named for pioneer builder John Pike) to Pike Place and then along Pike Place to Virginia Street. Across Pike Place, the Sanitary Market and related buildings rise toward 1st Avenue. |
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