Pike Place Market

I was just at Pike Place Market on Friday (January 30). A couple days before a coworker sent me a link to this story about the 40th anniversary of The Beatles’ last public live performance. That last concert was an impromptu rooftop performance in London to get footage for their film “Let It Be.”

A local Beatles cover band, Creme Tangerine, planned a recreation of the rooftop concert for noon on the anniversary here in Seattle. The location? On the rooftop of the Copacabana Restaurant right here in Pike Place Market. Ken Mansfield, who was the U.S. manager of The Beatles’ Apple Records and who was in attendance at the original performance attended this one as well. Of course I had to go!

Creme Tangerine did a great job recreating the concert, down to the same set list plus more. The concert lasted a little over an hour. It was cold out there, but people didn’t seem to mind. The music was amazing. I got some video which I haven’t yet had a chance to download. But I found this TV video from King5 online.

I feel fortunate to work just a few blocks from Pike Place Market so I can attend events like this when they come up!

over a year i’d say with mom and sister then one time with dad and brother so when they lived in west seattle and brother lives in CA, now to. so nice to have family every where. then gives us reasons to take vacation leave from work to. love to go here shopp til i drop. and eat til i cant walk.but i recomend this place to every one.and go many times to.

Check out the shrunken head, if you can find it.

Holy flying fish!

Loads of interesting shops to roam around on the different levels. I waited around in the hope of seeing the famous flying fish, but the guys only throw them to each other when people buy them.

apparently the lower levels are haunted. there are some weird stores there, but they are really cool too. this one place had this little puppy named bella. smart dog. adorable too.

if you go i suggest parking by the park and ride near seattle center. there is usually parking and you just walk the rest of the way.
or take the bus. the bus is good too.

One of the fish throwing guys was hit in the face with a fish while we were there. My 2 year old thought that was the best part of the day, he laughed so loud that all the guys noticed and where laughing at him laughing…..we had a great day.

You know that produce they sell? Nothing makes me feel more smug than actually buying it for cooking a meal at home. Yeah, eat it you tourist bitches and get out of my way, I’m here to actually buy something :-)

But yes. Good, cheap produce is to be had—especially in the red/green pepper department.

Everyone knows Starbucks, and the first one is really cool, although a bit small. There are sometimes small folk bands playing outside the Starbucks, and it is just a nice environment. It is also cool to see the different logo that the Starbucks has compared to the mainstream, one on every corner Starbucks.

What a cool market place.. I wish we had the flower stands in my town! I wanted to take some home with me. Great little restaurants tucked away here. I found a reproduction of an old German lithograph downstairs in one of the shops.