Pike Place Market Centennial

A brief history of the market's first hundred years, including its founding and development, its farmers and shoppers, and the citizen initiative that saved it from urban renewal in the 1970s.

Table of Contents Birth of the Market Early Expansion Traffic and the Fate of the Market Privatization The City's Role as Overseer Farmers and the Market Japanese Farmers and Race Relations The Aging of the Market Plans for Change Citizen Protests Initiative 1 Rehabilitating the Market The Market Revitalized

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