Signed by Artist and Mayor of the Market!
Click here to see the 12 images included in the 2007 Wall calendar.
This is the cover of my 2007 Pike Place Market - Seattle Calendar.
Hint: it makes a great gift - so if you buy five I'll give you one free!
ISBN: 0-931693-44-6
The calendar features 12 of my watercolors I did of the
Pike Place Market, Seattle and Puget Sound Country.
On November 29, 1907, Seattle
City Councilman Thomas Plummer Revelle dedicated the opening of the Pike
Place Public Market with these words:
"This Market is yours. I dedicate it to you, and may it prove
a benefit to you and your children. It is for you to defend, protect, and to
uphold, and it is for you to see that those who occupy it treat you fairly,
that no extortion be permitted, and that purpose of which it was created be
religiously adhered to.
This is one of the greatest days in the history of Seattle,
but it is only the beginning, for soon the city will have one of the greatest
markets in the world"
Thomas Revelle proved prophetic, for 100 years later
the Pike Place Market is now recognized as the nation's marketplace, because
of our dedication to the principles of Councilman Revelle.
It hasn't been easy. World War II took our Japanese American
farmers as well; our farmland gave way to wartime factories. In the 1960s urban
renewal reared its ugly head. In the early 1980s the Market was "sold" to New
Yorkers. As a community we overcame these adversities.
It's not over; still today our community feels the pressures
of those who covet the land the Market sits on, more than the Market itself.
Through all this the Market keeps evolving and growing. Her
true strength is the folks who love her. Today she is the oldest, continuously
operating market in the country. Congratulations Pike Place Market on your
first one hundred years.
- Michael Yaeger
Honorary Mayor of the Pike Place Market
