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I'm a coastal crab fisherman for Dungeness Crab.
I've been doing that for approximately 20 years, it's very hard work, it's not for
everybody.
You have to be a lover of the ocean I guess.
My mom's been farming since she was five or six.
It's so natural, it's just come so naturally, the farming.
My mother is really the farmer, I'm the farmer's daughter.
Why did I get into this sort of thing, it must be crazy.
I think it all started with a love for plants, I really like working with plants.
It's a way of life.
It's a growing addiction this farm thing.
It's a commute, I spend 300 miles on the road each week, but Pike Place has been great for
us.
Load in at Seattle's Pike Place Market.
It doesn't get much more romantic or real than this.
Pike Place is one of the world's great markets, rivaling London's Covent Garden and the Grand
Bazaar in Istanbul.
The show runs 360 mornings a year on a seven-acre stage to an audience of nine million visitors
annually.
Around about 3 a.m. the decks are cleaned and cleared for fish and produce to roll in.
Today Harry Caldwell will sell 500 pounds of Dungeness crab and 2,000 pounds of fish.
This is the story of the Pike Place public market, it's homegrown politics, struggle
for preservation and it's people.
I'm one of them, Jim Hind, street performer and storyteller, been doing it for a dozen
years.
For me it's an early morning rise, a cup of coffee, and with a little luck I'll catch
Dan Mansell stacking the beans.
Well it goes back to the old days when it was really highly competitive down here, everybody
took pride in making their displays.
There was probably 150, 200 farmers in the market and they were all selling the same
merchandise and it all looked the same unless you put that little extra touch.
Sometime around 745 the North Arcade begins to blossom and C. Yang Shell brings her fresh
cut flowers to market.
Load up all the buckets in the van and take it to market and unload it there.
It's a lot of loading and unloading, so if you want to see my muscles, I have some.
The night place market is about more than produce and pretty things, it's about colorful
and passionate people whose labor and love are one and the same.
I do feel like I'm in the zoo every day in Virginia.
The zoo doesn't ever stop.
Thank you all very much.
Hand picked, hand crafted and hand played, like Dan Mansell said, it all comes down to
that special touch.
That's the way it is and that's the way it's always been from the very beginning.
This market is one of the oldest continuously operating public markets in the country.
The way this market as we know it today got started was local farmers were having a problem
selling their produce from their farms to the wholesalers down on Western Avenue and
they said the heck with it and they brought their produce one block up to the Pike Place
and sold it direct to the public.
The citizenry provided the initiative, Councilman Thomas Revelle the City Ordinance and Investor
Frank Goodwin and his brothers the first covered stalls.
The year was 1907.
95 year old Grace Stansfield remembers those years.
She first came to the market in 1911.
When I was a little girl we used to come down when there was no market here at all and hate
to say it but we'd come down the horse and buggy and my father would rent a horse and
buggy that would hold all of us girls, five of us and mother and she'd make peanut butter
sandwiches from home and wrap them over the cloth napkin because they didn't have paper
napkins or restaurants and we got hungry.
The farmers and I like to think of them as revolutionaries they weren't going to take
it anymore and they came up here and all of a sudden people realized wow this is something
and then everything grew around the farm tables.
So we'd come down just sit on the ground and there was no curves no sidewalks we'd watch
them unload carrots and chickens is about all I've ever seen them unload there was no
cars to clog up the market parking you didn't have to worry just unhitch the horses.
If you see some of the pictures from the 20s, 30s and 40s of this Pike Place Market it is
absolutely packed with people.
It was so much fun to see things just like it is now only more so now.
Everything that you see here including street performers came here because it was that gathering
place that was actually started by the revolutionary farmers.
The market has everything.
You'll be surprised when you walk down a minute what you're looking for.
Go through the main arcade and you'll see truck farmers that bring their produce in
organic farmers that will bring their produce in.
You will always see well hopefully you will always see produce being sold at the market
simply because this is the bread basket for downtown.
One of the earliest family legacies at the Pike Place Market was started in 1909 by Socio
Manzo from Sereno Italy.
His son Dan is now the patriarch of the family.
My grandfather he really wants you know things to be the way they were you know and things
are good now just you know and he wishes he was still back in his time.
In those early market years Italian growers were joined by the Japanese, a melting pot
like America herself.
It was much more colorful with people and speaking in all kinds of languages very loud
and trying to attract the customers and broken English and whatever and there were a lot
of Filipinos and many Italians.
Each immigrant group brought a special dimension to the market.
Just looking out the window here it's gorgeous isn't it gorgeous it really is beautiful you
know they take care of it and fix it and that was a carryover I think when the Japanese
were here and they kind of put everything methodically in there and it just carries
on you know because that's a good way to sell.
Every vegetable had to be displayed that to make like a cauliflower there was a certain
way you could trim it so that it would look large and pretty.
With a little green collar of leaf stems of the leaves so that it looked attractive that
way.
Well it looked like a flower.
He really had a knack for that yeah he really had a knack.
In the 30s Amy Kikoshima sold flowers, Jim was a farmer now married over 60 years guess
where they met.
Right here in Pike Market.
Well we weren't interested as steadies well we just looked each other over and I thought
oh he's way too good looking to even take a second look at me I'm such a mouse.
But I was lucky he looked inside I think a lot of the men would make real flattering
remarks to these housewives very housewifey housewives make outrageous remarks what how
beautiful they were and all that just to be able to sell their produce.
I thought it was such a riot I'd listen to them.
I know you were pretty outrageous too.
Well I really don't know what I had.
Back then the Italians flair for selling became legendary as seen in this classic film from
1927 made by Arthur Goodwin one of the original developers of Pike Place.
It would be improbable to document the market without the mention of an Italian immigrant
farmer business manager and shameless promoter Joe Desimone the king of Pike Place.
He's a big pampas man he must have been about seven foot.
No not that tall six something.
He established policies which guided the destiny of the market from 1926 to 1946.
If ever there were a PT Barnum of the Pike Place market it was Giuseppe Desimone.
He had bright red or some kind of real colorful white suspenders like the firemen wear and
then he'd walk big fat tummy and you could tell he was king of the walk market anyway
but he was also very thoughtful of the people that worked there and that rented stalls from
him.
Really a colorful character.
All right ladies what's for dessert come on now I got raspberries fresh cream today.
It's just family tradition that's you know that's what our family's been doing forever
ever since we could see over-the-counters.
We're gonna over half my life.
Like the Genzalis here at the market it's not how many years you've been in business
but how many generations.
Frank's quality produce were retail produce and fruits and vegetables were the four generations
in the Pike Place market since 1928 1928.
I'm Frank Jr. I'm John Frank Sr.
Well we started as farmers down here my grandparents started as farmers down here then the airport
took the last four acres of our farm last year.
It wasn't something we wanted to do we were forced to do it.
All the money in the world wasn't enough.
We didn't want to sell the farm we wanted to keep farming.
Takes from the heart a lot of pride tough to see it go.
We were the only high stall farming family left.
Okay here's a rule of thumb high stallers like the Genzalis buy most of what they sell.
Day stallers grow what they sell.
I feel like I belong here you know not just like it's a job but it's it's my my responsibility
and it's you know it's mine it's my chore it's what I do.
You got a lot of pressure from outside of work you know they they know everything from
if you got in trouble at school or you know if you were out too late have to live up to
your parents so it's more than a job.
It's kind of like a big family everyone's kind of like a big family we all know each
other take care of each other.
People say where can I get a donut and a cup of coffee well you can buy the coffee from
the coffee people you can buy the donut from the donut people.
You can go to supermarkets and you can buy everything in supermarkets but you can come
down here and you can buy produce from the produce people you can buy your Italian food
from Italian specialty stores you can buy your Latino foods from the people who know
that that food that's the magic of it and that's what America misses everybody sells
what they're good at and they're all individual families there are over 400 individual businesses
in the seven and a half acres that's a lot of families that are being fed from this bike
place market.
That's what's unique about the market I mean it's set up to be owner-operated and customers
say well what's your name you know I'm Don oh you're the Don from Don and Joe that's
right you know I'm glad you're shopping here appreciate the business.
In the late 70s I scrounged for Italian people because there were so few and found them in
the market which is the reason why I fell in love with the market because I could get
sausage here and I could get prosciutto here and I could get cheese here.
It's got to be Reggiano I eat about a half a pound a day you have to try it because once
you do you're a true believer in the quality of that particular type of cheese not only
for grading but for eating truffles it's a weekly commodity whatever the traffic will
bear anywhere from well we've had them from a thousand dollars a pound up to two thousand
dollars a pound now that's the winter whites it sounds expensive but when you look at it
it's forty fifty sixty dollars a truffle it's a wonderful experience.
We're probably the oldest business under the same ownership at this point other than maybe
Pure Food Fish, Saul Eamon's family.
My dad started in the Pike Place Market about 1911-1912 emigrated from Turkey.
Been here all my life I would say all my adult life, 1947 started right after high school.
It's fun it's a fun thing to tell people how to maybe it's an eagle thing, eagle trip I
don't know but it's a fun thing to tell people how to buy seafood prepare seafood and handle
seafood I love working in the market otherwise I would be working at my age right now.
Since the very beginning scores of family farmers and fishmongers came here and never
left it would be nice to say that every family who put down roots here had a chance to flourish
and grow but when America entered the war in 1941 the market shuttered as one group
of friends and neighbors were torn from the market's arms.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor almost all Americans of Japanese descent living on the
west coast were forced into internment camps.
In 1941 approximately two-thirds of the farmer stalls in the Pike Place Market were occupied
by Americans of Japanese descent.
When the war broke out all our farming life was taken away from us so we couldn't come
back to farming.
I had a lot of friends that were interned they had farms little shops you had to leave
them overnight and go it was a sad time a sad time.
We didn't want to be separated so we went home to Redmond where his dad still was and
left from there to go to Pinedale and then Pinedale to the lake.
And I sincerely believed that we including my baby daughter were going to die there.
So it took only about six to seven maybe eight months before we were cleared Washington DC
cleared us because we had proof behind us that we were loyal Americans.
After they let us out of the relocation center we had to find other ways to make a living.
We had our ups and downs and we knew how to be poor my goodness we were never so poor
as when we came out of the concentration camps.
Just our suitcases and bus fare to the city where we were able to locate a job.
We think the Japanese farmers didn't come back and that was because while we were in
camp it was the first time they found out they had other skills I think maybe part of
it was because they were reluctant to come back from the way they were kicked out really
and nobody really I don't think anybody came back.
In remembrance of this unconscionable chapter in American history a seven panel mural Song
of the Earth by Aki Sagabe hangs in the main arcade.
I don't think there are any Japanese in the market at present are there yeah the new
Asians have taken on taking the place.
The newest members of the market community are the Mums.
They are a Laotian mountain people who were displaced by the Vietnam War and brought to
this country by our government.
That beautiful array of flowers in the North Arcade is some of their artwork.
My mother wanted to leave she felt like the communists would separate the family or turn
us into slaves or laborers or worse they might kill us and so she insisted that we leave
Laos and so we left and went to Thailand stayed in the camp for five years before we came
to the U.S.
Among people they like to be busy all the time they like to work all the time and so
I think that was most difficult just sit around and wait for wait for their lives to continue.
It's like they're just living there and not really living.
The world is a stage and so is this market with a world-class cast of characters.
Market is a game it's a Hollywood and Broadway all together and we can sometimes lady kissing
my windows and knocking and they Vladimir why are not smiling I said I'm sick and tired
Vladimir smile keep smiling Vladimir it's it's it's a real game it's.
To give you energy here we try to make our business as much as possible open for the
customers that they can see through every corner how we make pretty much an ideal pastry
right now fresh apples also coming from the market ethnic pastry with the local twist
we feel with our main cream cheese or sprinkle what smells so good at the Pike Place Market
everything like the Katelna Kasparovsky which literally means little feast we really have
the shortest distance from our oven to the customer because we have a just a few couple
feet between our display case and the oven so you feel by your back the oven and you
can feel the smell smell and people love the smell they find us by the scent by the aroma
they find our our our bakery and this is them very important in the market you can make
the producer I think that's why people come to give these flowers from the people who
grow grow to get the fresh pastry from the people who made them we don't make a good
baklava only the best only the best nothing hero worship started right here at Mr. D's
that's hero as in the Greek sandwich which put Mr. D's on the map we are the only ones
to make the year my whole hope is for my son to take care of the business he's good hard
worker very hard work he work in the restaurant from the day he born he knows the business
you know you know the recipes you know everything he's very very polite to the customers very
good I'm like a father like a son right I'm here now 11 years with the market I'm
from Israel I'm coming here about 530 making soup prepare everything before people start
to come so I have two hour quietly nobody can ask me give me bagels give me that so
and then I'm making the potato salad here I'm making the hummus and you know hummus
matzo ball soup vegetable soup schnitzel you know you've always wanted to try matzo
ball soup and Michelle makes it so convenient to discover traditional kosher cooking I remember
so well this first day of our success for her it was the best chance to change her blood
and her mind because she worked as a lawyer maybe 12 years in Estonia and she's sick
and tired and when you're changing your occupation and country you really have to change your
blood and soul and everything it was much more she became much more interesting person
for me because every every morning I can see her eyes she's selling I'm watching she's
a wonderful lady I have never seen such a beautiful interesting eyes because she's
smiling for customers I'm sitting right there and looks like she's smiling for me I had
this chance only during my wedding 15 minutes but now it's every morning you know I feel
myself like I'm in my wedding this is still a farmers market they get first priority for
space on the day tables where the local fresh produce is sold some of their best customers
are right around the corner we do buy from the market we actually have a very long association
with Saucy O's in the market we use them for a lot of the produce that we need on a daily
basis we also get a great deal of things from a lot of local farmers especially on the Wednesdays
and Sundays when the organic farmers are down there there's a farm for frogs on farms we
get a lot of product from so that stuff's great yeah I'm just gonna cut you a sample if you
want I've got a few varieties today actually a little grainier like a European pear a couple
weeks ago I think he brought up a box of mizuna and said he picked it in the field and it was
so tasty he was just excited he just had to come up and have us taste it so that's the
kind of fun thing you want to use that product from somebody like that you know because you
know they care about what you're doing who's next now just about dinner time treat yourself
right have seafood tonight any two king steaks please two king steaks local we buy our fish
over at city fish produce we get down at Frank's it's not just because they're downstairs I've
been buying from them for about 10 years since before I got in here we just run down there and
sometimes if we were busy and we're running out of stuff we'll call them and they'll run it to us
as I've traveled this country and I've been on two national tours I have yet to find
vegetable tofu that can compare to the garlic trees there's nothing like it anywhere and I've
been to manhattan you aren't going to find market potatoes like Yarrant Lowell's you aren't going to
find french fries that can compare to Thurman and Cathy's down at Emmett Watson's and all of the
market people and by the market people I mean the people who come to the market the people who work
in the market they all know this this is no secret the younger people aren't familiar with those these
old-fashioned dishes that Bob has on the menu and a man came from New York and had the chadro and he
said this is like the Four Seasons in New York and at that point in time I didn't know what the Four
Seasons in New York was fish fish roll but it's very good it's really good but it's very very rich
the Athenian began as a tavern and now has a menu as fat as the Sunday Times but with a little more
food for thought and they open early just in case you're ever sleepless in Seattle it was started by
a Greek I would stand at the door and they say how long has this place been here and I said
since about 1909 and they'd say oh did you start it
the face of the market has been sculpted for the past century by many things
world events American politics the politicians themselves have affected the market a time or two
as well I'm glad to be back in Seattle I love this crowd I love this town
when Bill Clinton came here before he was president his advance team had called and got the
historical commission secretary and asked her if the Pike Place market was a politically vibrant area
and she laughed and she says well only since 1907 the market is known as a hotbed of of of
disgruntlement and there's there's reasons for it all of these people from different backgrounds you
have farmers you have craftspeople performers there's inevitable conflicts that arise that
involve representation with people and it's it's a it's kind of politics from the ground up you
have the residents you have the management of the market and then you have the people who come to
the market to shop add to that the fact that it was established by ordinance that actually sets
up the market as a political governing body within the city this market belongs to the people of
Seattle and is managed by the preservation and development authority or PDA this city within a
city is governed by three groups the historical commission the PDA council and the market
constituency whose members serve without financial compensation for there are still some things that
money can't buy as chair of the constituency i hold elective public office just representing
the merchants and the farmers and the craftspeople who work here and believe me
me they put me to work anybody can bring their gripes to our constituency meeting
and some of the fire that can come out of this meeting i mean there isn't a better show in town
for a buck of course the most colorful show in town is the line otherwise known as the craft
community there's the high stallers there's the line and then there's the farmers the farmers and
the high sellers are different but the line is an entity on its own we're the frontline emissaries
for the whole market so the role um we play is uh presentation keeping this place colorful
uh samara pennywell brown hey roll call happens every morning rain or shine as many as 250 artists
and artisans gather at the board in the north end of the north arcade and in a seniority based system
are allocated their daily stall assignments it's not an easy thing they don't just magically appear
there they have to set up and take down every day and a lot of people don't really understand
that when they come through and they see all the nice pretty shiny things but they don't understand
how much sweat goes in to making that shiny happy facade during the 70s these bohemians had a huge
hand in keeping the market going there he is and i think for that reason we owe them a debt of
gratitude this is one of the finest full-time crafts community in the united states and probably
in the world the person out that just walks by here may not even know that these are handmade
yes we have to make what we sell they may not get it but it's a real important rule and and it's um
um the whole core of any public market and especially this one
um i had come from a background of produce work and i got a job selling t-shirts and i was really
excited about it i was really scared doing the roll call and getting my four feet of space
and i'm given these four feet of space and and i am to make a little bon marché with it and i'm
going to have you know wares displayed in all sorts of creative ways behind me and there's a
piece of tape on either side of me and that's where the next person starts and they're doing
the same thing and if i cross that tape i'm in big trouble that tape is the law don't go over the tape
so
after i was there a couple months i realized that you know people can go they can take a half an
hour they can have their break and and at least two people will be watching everyone's stuff and
they're not only watching it they're selling it for them they can be fighting and having these
huge verbal fights at one moment and i'm shocked and they're screaming at each other and they are
hating each other and then one says i gotta go to the bathroom and the other one's like i'll watch
your stuff and they're fine street performing at seattle's bike place market is kind of like
being on a world tour without ever having to leave home
uh
uh performers are part of this market and they're important to this market
and you know by the same token it's thanks to the people who support street music
uh otherwise we wouldn't be able to afford to feed our families and and uh have a life
me
anybody can see a show it doesn't matter what economic group you're from it doesn't uh there's
no prejudices
there are those people who choose to tip the performers and uh i thank you kindly
i got a tip uh from a movie staff there's there's a lot of uh well-known people that come to the
market um and you entertain them and then you go home and you see them on tv and they entertain
you back so it's kind of a this is a neutral grounds where everybody comes everybody's saying
it's in our mind it's in a place that's lost in time even though it may back up with tomorrow's
star
it's kind of like watching a parade and getting paid to do it and some days you get paid better
than others and other days you don't get paid at all but the parade remains constant
in the early 70s the pike place market was almost pushed into elliot bay
urban renewal by any other name six days from now seattle voters will pass judgment on initiative
number one which could well determine the future of one of the city's best-known landmarks the
pike place market the save the market initiative was a defining moment in seattle's history
the culmination of a take it to the streets fight city hall bone numbing battle begun eight years
earlier it was led by a grassroots organization known as friends of the market and a university
of washington professor of architecture victor steinbrook victor and i were sitting at the
kitchen table and uh he had already met with ibsen nelson and fred bassetti all three architects
and very close friends one of the places i remember coming to was the bolivian cafe the copacabana
the bolivian guy had a little hole in the wall with about four or five stools and we would come
a group of us sometimes eight or ten people and it's at that time that we heard that the city
council was and the mayor were thinking of tearing down almost all of it except for the very core
what sort of market area would emerge from all these changes the city's urban renewal plan
included a 35-story high-rise apartment which made the market look like david versus goliath
in a battle of bricks and mortar now i'm all for brand new buildings being an architect
but most of us were very upset because that would wipe out the sanitary market and the corner market
and that triangle building it would have wiped out all that and a lot more so they decided that if
they were going to save the market the environs uh the way of life of the market um it's hard
in the city if they wanted to save it they would have to start now and they knew it was going to
be a long and hard battle of course it seemed so obvious to us to keep this vital uh section of
the city alive in its variety its kaleidoscope of people oh it was a tough fight too it was a
very tough fight we picketed for 13 solid weeks there were an awful lot of very important um
um not only individuals but businesses that did not want the market saved in terms of restoration
they wanted it torn down and cleaned up people who care about the market are
going to picket uh city hall and lots of other places to keep calling attention to the need
for revising and changing the pike plaza plan so that the market will be saved and so that the
residents of the area will get a fair treatment and we're trying to embarrass the bureaucrats
frankly he cared he cared about the city and he cared about its people that's all i can tell you
it went on until 1971 when the initiative was passed and they hired a good friend of mine george
bartholick as the architect for the reconstruction and they couldn't have got a better guy i don't
think i wanted the job myself but he beat me out and i was mad at the time but he was a better
choice he put his whole life and soul into it his work of genius was that you can't tell that there
was an architect here he kept it as it is it wasn't gentrified it wasn't slicked up in any way
there's no sign of modernity it's just itself
i think you got it almost perfect
so
pike place market was saved and protected as a historical district by citizen vote
the people of seattle thought they saved their market in the 70s
until a new threat came in 1989 in the form of new york investors and i think the proper perspective
is somebody sold us the market and so when that story broke in the dailies all of a sudden
attention was drawn back to the pike place market and i mean seattle absolutely just went
loose about this that that new yorkers could steal away this pike place market and i mean
they came to this market and it was packed you couldn't walk you couldn't drive a car through the
street it's mine it's yours and new york so home and mind your own business
the new york investors were written a check and they went scurrying back to new york with all
their money they were happy at that point it brought the focus back to the market which
people tend to take for granted if you don't remind them every 10 years that that this place
exists it's just a slice of reality when the whole world is getting more and more
uh kind of phony with television and now all the computer virtual reality stuff this is real
you come here and there's passion the people really care about it and it's something true
there's no question about the something true something uh you don't find elsewhere that's
what america's all about where else in america can you make a living you know send your kids
to college and not have an education
it's a happening yeah it's a happening and that's really what the question of working down here it's
a lot of fun working here it's better than working in an office working in an office would be very
boring the dream come true yeah i bought a job
well i have kids when you can have a produce stand come on in folks grab a bag definitely
my youngest right there yep come on in we rescued him from i'm not quite sure what we rescued him
from i do i love working in the market yeah even when it drives me crazy it's better than a job so
it's pretty nice sometimes i forget it's a job
you guys want to buy something you're just going to stand in the camera all day
it's the 60 minutes crew folks we've been found out we're selling photos for way less than we
should folks that's what's going on here all right next to that let's go perfect pizzas in
the hill it's good today folks you got them in a tree right washington beaches come on in last
call or no it's good today all right who's gonna be next up here today we got super super sweet things
it becomes a circus i thought you looked familiar
oh it was a grateful dead show a couple of years ago here we go
oh i've always wanted to be down here i've lived in many parts of seattle but
ultimate goal was the market and i'm here and i like it it's fascinating
always something different there's so many nooks and crannies in the market to visit i forget it
myself next level below the level below that the level below that it just seems they go on forever
and they're all interesting places to poke your head in and the people are genuine they are doing
their own thing there they each it's you go talk to them and you find real interesting delightful
people to talk to it's fun to find the ones who get excited about things i had a man here who
found that i had the old tattoos that you put on your finger on your hands you would moisten them
put them on and then take them off and there would be that picture i had some of zeppelins and he is
a zeppelin collector of real things and of post posters and photographs and he was so excited
he could hardly sleep that night he told me he is actually with the space program there are a few
who come in and say well i don't see anything here that would interest me and i think if you'd look
around there'd be something that would interest you i'm sure how are you doing hi how's it going
oh i got a bunch of odd magazines let me take a look i swear that the only thing sweeter than
garland's postcard collection is garland herself these are a couple of my favorite ones and this
is princess angeline chief seattle's daughter and this is a postcard of chief seattle i had at least
50 careers and my idea of a great success was a full tank of gas i felt as if i had really achieved
something if i had that i did the hippie leather trade i made hand laced elkide shirts and purses
that could be used as hats and stuff like that things that people didn't really need
and when they they need shoes that fit and so it's a entirely different relationship with the
customer in the shoe business as opposed to the earlier trinket trade and i i need that to be a
serious thing and not a frivolity and the relationship with the customers is really good
when it's successful because i'm fulfilling something they need and
um that transcends a lot of boundaries and barriers look at this place it's magic
you couldn't reproduce this in a million years what we're about to do is the impossible i'm
going to take these two pieces of rope the long piece of rope like this the middle size one exactly
like that and the short one now i'm going to ask you to watch closely because we're going to make
them all middle size about like this now in order to do that all we do is take and place the ends
together exactly like this the short the middle and the long if you would help me by blowing on
those ends oh my gosh you've been practicing take those reps give them a little stretch and
oh my goodness did you see that yep look at that not one but two three pieces are up about the
same length well that is the hard part the easy part of course is restoring them back all you
have to do now is get a little magicians dust sprinkle it over the top and when you go home
you too can do this be sure to get a very yep a very long one like that a shirt one like that
a middle one like that and don't forget the dust okay okay never get bored something new every day
if you just take the time to browse the shops and the markets down under run from the quaint
to the eccentric and are filled with that good old-fashioned charm that's nigh on impossible to
find today
and put loose i can get around and see a little bit more no matter what happens i'm enjoying life
now you never stop to think well what about tomorrow so just be it sounds so trite but it
just be another adventure tomorrow rachel the pig is the market foundation's lovable 24 hour a day
panhandler donations received are distributed to the markets medical clinic the downtown food bank
child care senior center and assisted living facilities like the heritage house
it's a good thing for there are still some things that money can buy
i say that coming down to this market gives people a true microcosm of the world
it sort of transports you out of seattle yet you're in seattle
but you're also you're with every social economic level of people we're not a gentrified
mall we are a place where people live where they eat where they drink where they play i got to the
market and i realized that i was really home and i'd always wanted to be a performer but i never
had had the courage and i remember telling my wife you know when i got fired from my advertising
account executive job she says well you can go get another job honey and i said yeah i was thinking
of playing music on the street at the pike place market well that went over really big you know
yeah but instead of getting into a fistfight i wrote my first blues song called the upwardly
mobile blues and i've been writing songs ever since well i lost my job last friday
all my feet didn't fit those uptown shoes this place brings out well at least in my case it
brought out my soul in other words it gave me the courage to do what i knew i should have been doing
all along and you know for that reason you know it'll always have a warm spot in my heart
so
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