William Dietrich,Seattle Times
A hundred years ago, a revolution started in Seattle. A revolt over the price of onions. Today, or its resolution has become a city institution and a national attraction: the Pike station Market. rowdy,rambling, fragrant, or venerable (respected because of age, distinguished),social and confusing, the Market has become an antidote to the sterilized impersonality of globalized chains and speed shopping. In short, and it is everything the 21st century is not. It started simply. Back in 1907,middleman price gougers on Western Avenue had driven the cost of onions from 10 cents a pound to a dollar. A populist city councilman named Thomas Revelle...
Source: realclearhistory.com