Pike Place Market Classics

A bronze pig stands on the sidewalk with a coin slot in its snout. Cast in nineteen eighty-six by sculptor Georgia Gerber, the sculpture is a life-sized replica of a prize-winning pig named Rachel from Island County. The Pike Place Market…

The Pike Place Fish Market is recognizable by the rows of salmon, halibut, and Dungeness crab resting on crushed ice under a bright orange awning. It began in nineteen thirty as a modest stall, but its current reputation grew from a…

The Athenian Seafood Restaurant and Bar sits tucked into a corner of the Pike Place Market with a window view that captures the ferries crossing Elliott Bay. Established in nineteen oh nine, it began as a simple coffee shop for dockworkers…

The narrow storefront at the corner of the Pike Place Market arcade sports a bright red sign with white lettering. For over twenty years, this shop sold nothing but illusions and sleight-of-hand tools to tourists and professional magicians…

The Gum Wall is a brick alleyway surface coated in layers of masticated bubblegum, forming a kaleidoscopic, textured relief that stretches along Post Alley. This practice began in the nineteen nineties when patrons waiting in line for the…

The storefront features floor-to-ceiling glass windows that reveal the entire cheesemaking process on the other side. Vats, stainless steel piping, and thick blocks of curd sit in full view of the sidewalk. Kurt Dammeier opened this shop…

The corner of Pike Place and Stewart Street features a low brick building with a green-painted facade and the name Corner Market embossed in stone above the entrance. It replaced a chaotic collection of open-air stalls when it opened in…

The two towering totem poles and the sweeping, unobstructed view of Elliott Bay define Victor Steinbrueck Park. The land occupies the site of the old Moore Brothers feed store, demolished in the early nineteen sixties. Architect Victor…