The Pine Place Market opened August 17, 1907. Today the market has 200 businesses, 190 craftspeople, 120 farmers and 240 street performers and musicians.

Seattle's Pike Place Market, in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, is a product of necessity. A hundred years ago, consumers, fed up with the high price of onions, demanded a market where they could buy produce directly from farmers. 

They got their wish, and the market on Pike Street corner today is a historic landmark and is known as "The Soul of Seattle." 

It is as lively as ever, attracting more than nine million visitors each year.