pike place

Click Here to Order a Ready to Frame Luster PrintI love markets. Markets are the very basis of civilization. It is where the opportunity for people to participate in a place to where contribution is collateralized through the very items merchants want to sell to consumers who use their income in kind.Human nature has never made anything as amazing as the market.And if there ever was a place where one can witness how wonderful the real market - of real things that real people want and need - it is Pike Place in Seattle. Pike Place Market opened August 17, 1907, and is one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States.The creation of this market came to fruition on behalf of the typical arbitraging middle men do controlling the commercial retail locations of exchanges. Most farmers, due to the amount of time required to work their farms, were forced to sell their produce on consignment through the wholesalers on Western Avenue in a three block are