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TOP SIGHT
PIKE PLACE MARKET
Take a bunch of small-time businesses and sprinkle them liberally around
a spatially challenged waterside strip amid crowds of old-school bohemi-
ans, new-wave restaurateurs, tree huggers, bolshie students, artists, urb-
an buskers and artisans. The result: Pike Place Market, a cavalcade of
noise, smells, personalities, banter and urban theater that's almost
London-like in its cosmopolitanism. In operation since 1907, Pike Place is
Seattle in a bottle, a wonderfully local experience that highlights the city
for what it really is: all-embracing, eclectic and proudly singular.
