Timeline | Evolution Of A Revolution

Aug. 17, 1907 -- The Pike Place Public Market opens with six to 12 wagons.

Nov. 30, 1907 -- Realtor Frank Goodwin puts first buildings up, with 76 produce stalls.

1910 -- City of Seattle contributes $10,000 to add stalls.

1920 -- Mrs. Belmont Tiffany (of the Tiffany jewelers of New York) compares Pike Place Market to Paris' Les Halles.

1921 -- Farmers retain control of Market by a one-vote margin on City Council.

1922 -- Market completes present-day configuration of buildings.

1922 -- Library branch established at Market.

1925 -- Market has 500 stalls and 25,000 shoppers weekdays, 50,000 on Saturdays.

1926 -- City leaders reject proposal to replace Market with a gigantic new concrete one.

1926 -- Arthur Goodwin buys Market buildings from his Uncle Frank.

1927 -- Clock and Public Market sign installed.

1929 -- Farmers protest plan to reserve some stalls for permanent, year-'round vendors, but ultimately lose.

1930 -- Peter DeLaurenti marries Mamie-Marie Mustelo, later buying out her mother's grocery and creating one of the Market's best-known specialty-food stores.

1931 -- Market becomes important source of cheap food during the Depression.

1935 -- Dance Hall operates in Economy Market Building.

1938 -- Artist Mark Tobey begins to sketch and paint Market scenes.

1939 -- Stalls peak at 515 leases.

1941 -- Joe Desimone takes over ownership from the Goodwins.

1941 -- Sanitary Market building burns soon after attack onPearl Harbor. Some suspect the Japanese. The cause was not determined.

1942 -- 110,000 Japanese-Americans interned on West Coast, stall leases plunge to 196. Market begins to empty and decay.

1942 -- Nellie Curtis opens famed brothel in former LaSalle Hotel, south end of Market.

1946 -- In postwar era, truck farming eclipsed by modern farming, and supermarkets take business away from Pike Place Market. Joe Desimone dies. (His heirs sell to city in 1974.)

1949 -- Stall leases dip to 53. Increasing use of cars reduces mass-transit access to Market.

1950 -- Engineer Harlan Edwards, husband of Councilwoman Myrtle Edwards, proposes Market be replaced with 1,500-car parking garage to serve downtown.

1953 -- Alaskan Way Viaduct built. Market district grows seedy.

1962 -- Seattle World's Fair.

1963 -- Proposal to replace Market with 3,000-car garage, hotel.

1968 -- Proposal to replace Market with 4,000-car garage.

1969 -- Market enthusiasts collect 53,000 signatures to save it.

1971 -- An initiative to create a Market historic district wins 60 percent of vote. First Starbucks opens.

1973 -- City creates Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority.

1974 -- U.S. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson begins injection of what will be $60 million in federal funds; private investors put in $75 million.

1977 -- Market Senior Center begins in ex-biker tavern called the Motherlode.

1978 -- Victor Steinbrueck Park, honoring key player in Market salvation, completed on site of former armory.

1980 -- The Market Authority completes acquisition of 80 percent of the Market's land.

1983 -- Market enters real-estate and management agreements with New York-based Urban Group to raise capital for rehabilitation.

1985 -- Campaign begins to replace wooden floors with tiles, each named for a contributor; raises $1.2 million.

1986 -- Rachel, the bronze pig, installed at Market; raises $9,000 a year.

1989 -- Market parking garage completed.

1991 -- The Urban Group's attempt to foreclose on the Market gets final defeat in the courts.

1995 -- Public votes to keep Pine Street open to traffic.

2001 -- Inspired by Rachel, city begins "Pigs on Parade" contest; raises $500,000.

2007 -- Centennial. The Market covers 9 acres with 56 food vendors, 98 other merchants, 50 restaurants, 20 offices or service outlets and 450 residents. It attracts 10 million visitors a year.