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est, head to Made in Washington. One of several locations around the city, it stocks arts
and crafts, T-shirts, coffee and chocolate, smoked salmon, regional wines, books and
handy creations like the 'Bite of Washington' gourmet-food gift basket.
YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOP
SOUVENIRS
( 206-682-5844; Pier 54; 9am-9pm; University St)
This landmark shop, on Pier 54,
now has a lesser sibling, Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe Too - but never mind that. The ori-
ginal shop is where you'll find cabinets of shrunken heads, piglets in jars and dried
puffer fish - not for sale, of course, just for atmosphere.
Also not for sale are the famous black diamond, Chief Seattle's hat, a variety of
stalagmites and 'tites, and some pretty cool fortune-telling machines. The funniest
souvenir available for purchase is a Mt St Helens 'snowglobe' - instead of snow, it has
little gray particles meant to look like ash from the volcano's eruption.
SOUK
SPICES
( 206-441-1666; 1916 Pike Pl; 10am-6pm; Westlake)
Supplies here include Middle
Eastern and North African spices and foods. Named after the Arabic word for market-
place, the shop sells everything you'll need to get from cookbook to curry - including
cookbooks and curries.
READ ALL ABOUT IT
MAGAZINES
(93 Pike St; 10am-6pm; University St)
Who said magazines are dead? You can read
all about it at this Pike Place Market newsstand in
Jazz Times, Surfer Journal, Cigar
Aficionado
, Spanish tattoo mags, Italian gossip tabloids, Russian comics and the good
old
Buddhist Times
.
GOLDEN AGE COLLECTABLES
TOYS
( 206-622-9799; downstairs, 1501 Pike Place Market; Westlake)
A haven for geeks, kids
and, especially, geeky kids, this shop has comics and comic-book-inspired toys, nov-
elty items (hopping nuns etc), costumes and loads of goth-friendly knickknacks.
OLD SEATTLE PAPERWORKS
POSTERS, MAGAZINES
