Pike Place Market 1915. Photo by Steven Bryant, Flickr.
Pike Place Market 1917. Seattle Municipal Archives.
Pike Place Market 1922. Seattle Municipal Archives.
New spinach for a nickel, 1936. Notice the cigarette. Seattle Municipal Archives.
Greek clarinetist Nicholas Oeconamacos, who had performed under John Philip Sousa and the Seattle Symphony conductor Homer Hadley, returned to Seattle during the Great Depression to play for change on the street. Federal and regional funding also provided assistance for unemployed musicians, and the City Council sponsored outdoor concert series in the parks as one way to employ musicians. (Seattle PI photograph, 1931, courtesy of the Museum of History and Industry)
Pike Place Market 1972. Seattle Municipal Archives.
PK Dwyer and Donna Beck, 1973. Outside the Rice Bowl Cafe. Photo by SnapShot1951, Flickr.
PK Dwyer and Donna Beck, 1973. Rice Bowl Cafe again. Photo by SnapShot1951, Flickr.
Baby Gramps at the Market, 1981. Photo by Roger Wheeling, from facebook.com/Helix Redux
Dynamic Logs - Ron W. Bailey, Tito fuentes, Lou Hevly, Walter Singleman, Mark Sanders, Orville Johnson, Kathy Moore, Billy Hults and Savanhah Fuentes. At the Market 1979. Photo courtesy Ron Bailey.