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  2. Pike Place Market - Wikipedia

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    The market was created in 1907 when city councilman Thomas P. Revelle took advantage of the precedent of an 1896 Seattle city ordinance that allowed the city to designate tracts of land as public markets [12] and designated a portion of the area of Western Avenue above the Elliott Bay tideflats off Pike Street and First Avenue. [13]

  3. Left Bank Books (Seattle) - Wikipedia

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    Left Bank Books Collective is an anarchist bookstore, founded in 1973, in Seattle, Washington. It is located at 92 Pike Street, in the Corner Market building at Pike Place Market . [ 1 ] Its Lonely Planet review states that it "displays zines in español , revolutionary pamphlets, essays by Chomsky and an inherent suspicion of authority."

  4. Old Seattle Paperworks - Wikipedia

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    The shop's entrance in 2022. Old Seattle Paperworks is a shop in the Down Under part of Pike Place Market, in Seattle's Central Waterfront district. [1] The shop is next to the Giant Shoe Museum, [2] [3] which National Geographic Traveler has said is owned and operated by Old Seattle Paperworks. [4]

  5. Golden Age Collectables - Wikipedia

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    Comic books. Curbed Seattle has described Golden Age Collectables as "Seattle's longest-running comic book shop" and "a popular tourist-photo spot because of a convenient Pike Place Market location and a selfie-ready Batman statue outside". [1] Thrillist has called the shop as "a hodgepodge of nerdy/kitschy knick knacks, comic books and bric-a ...

  6. History of Pike Place Market - Wikipedia

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    Pike Place Market is a public market in Seattle, Washington founded in 1907. [1] Throughout its history, in spite of various challenges brought about by changing ordinances and planning initiatives, it has operated without major interruptions, making it one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States.

  7. 1st Avenue (Seattle) - Wikipedia

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    1st Avenue at Pike Place Market in 1972. Peepshows line the west side of the block. After World War II, 1st Avenue was nicknamed "Flesh Avenue", [ 13 ] and from the 1950s to the 1980s, police raids at peep shows and other adult-oriented businesses in the First and Pike Street block were frequent and the corner was called a haven for "street ...

  8. Corner Market - Wikipedia

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    The Corner Market, or Corner Market Building, is a building at Seattle's Pike Place Market, ... Left Bank Books, [6] Matt's in the Market, [7] Oriental Mart, [8] [9] ...

  9. Pike Place Fish Market - Wikipedia

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    A salmon in flight. The Pike Place Fish Market is widely known for its custom of hurling customers' orders across the shopping area. A typical routine will involve a customer ordering a fish; the fishmongers in orange rubber overalls and boots will call out the order which is loudly shouted back by all the other staff, at which point the original fishmonger will throw the customer's fish ...