Pikes Place Market, an essential tourist stop when in Seattle. Like the French Market in New Orleans, this is an actual functioning farmer’s market…..
….where you can buy the “oh my God”, softball sized peach from this guy…..
……or fresh seafood from a variety of vendors.
But most people come to the market and crowd around a single vendor to see flying fish, or more accurately fish made airborne by the Pike Place Fish Co. employees (like the guy in the picture above, part salesman, part showman). We did not happen to see a fish being thrown, so my guess is a customer has to make a purchase for that to happen.
Then you can take a walk down an alley off Pike Place Market, next to the Market Theater. Some time ago, some theater patrons had the bright idea of sticking coins onto the wall outside the Market Theater using gum. Theater employees scraped it off the first few times, but the tradition “stuck”, so they gave up on cleaning the mess. Today the layers built on countless amounts of saliva and thousands of hours of chewing is known as the Market Street Gum Wall. Citizen (and tourist) art at its finest.
When a coffee fix is needed, walk across the street to the first ever Starbucks….
and chase it with some fresh made cheese from Beecher’s.
Something for everyone here.
