In the summer of 1907 the Seattle City Council designated a public market be held on Pike Place between Pike Street and Pine Street in hopes of appeasing both farmers and consumers, angry over high food prices. The Pike Place Public Market flourished in the first half of the twentieth century but became less utilized with the decline of independent farms and the rise of supermarkets. In the 1960s the Friends of the Market formed and led a grassroots campaign to keep the market from being demolished in favor of urban renewal. The successful "Save the Market" campaign resulted in a 1971 initiative that established a seven-acre historic district at the market site.

The poster pictured here lists events scheduled throughout the summer of 1996 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the "Save the Market" campaign. The poster features two photographs of the Pike Place Public Market, which were combined into a single image by Edmund Lowe Photography, "Then & Now."

Credits printed on poster: Photo courtesy of Ed Lowe and. Printing by K/P Corporation. Paper: Vintage Remarque Gloss 80# Cover by Potlatch Corp.

Caption information source: "Voters preserve Seattle's historic Pike Place Market on November 2, 1971." by David Wilma, HistoryLink.org Essay 1426.
Caption information source: "The People Who Saved Pike Place Market," Seattle Weekly, December 5, 2016, retrieved from https://www..com/marketplace/how-the-people-saved-pike-place-market