An Elizabethan E-shaped house - also known as Pike Place - was still on the site in the 1680s.

Part of the market sits on what was originally mudflats below the bluffs west of Pike Place.

In 1977 it moved one block away to 1912 Pike Place where it has been in continuous operation ever since.

It was under his management that the direction of automobile traffic on Pike Place was reversed and the pedestrian-friendly brick paving was introduced.

Just something I found while looking for Pike Place one day (I turned the wrong way).

Pike Place is also famous for its fish market.

Starbucks Coffee began as a small coffeehouse in Pike Place.

He does throw an occasional fish, he said, like the showmen at Pike Place, "but we don't like to copy."

Through a city council ordinance vote, he had Pike Place designated temporarily as the city's first public market on August 5, 1907.

Even if you're not shopping for any food, it's worth a visit to Pike Place.