Others have reported that the figure sometimes changes colors from a glowing white shade to lavender, blue and pink. Sometimes she has been spied with a young Indian boy. Allegedly, she is most often sighted near a rough wooden column in the center of the lower level. Several have reported that the column is seemingly surrounded by cold air and that photographs have displayed abnormalities.
Others have seen her near the old Goodwill store. Though several exorcism attempts have been made by a Native American Shaman, Angeline continues to roam the market. The restless spirit of Arthur Goodwin, the nephew of original Pike Place Market developer, Frank Goodwin has also been spied at the market. Arthur was instrumental in helping Frank in the continued development of the market in its early days.
From to , Arthur held the job of Market Director and was often known to look down upon the happenings of the market from his upper-level office. He has also been seen swinging a golf club in his old office. Evidently, in the s this fat barber was known to sing her customers to sleep with soft lullabies. After they were comfortably snoozing, she helped herself to any cash in their pockets. However, sometime later, before the renovations were made to the market in the s, an area in the floor gave way and she fell to her death.
Today, maintenance workers report that they hear the sounds of lullabies when they are cleaning at night. Several shops within the market tell a variety of tales. At the Bead Emporium, a small boy is said to continue to dwell. When renovations were completed on the business a few years ago, a basket of beads was found in a wall that had not been accessed for many years before the store even opened.
It is believed that he was hoarding the beads in the wall to play with. Other strange things happen at night such as the cash register drawer opening and closing of its own accord.
This little spirit has also been known to visit the marionettes in the puppet shop. Though the old woman warned the shop owner that the spirit of Madame Nora was residing in the crystal ball, the owner thought little of it and made the trade. They sell out by lunchtime. The Sanitary Market building opens as well. The first of many proposals to create a new look to super-size the Market is rejected by Seattle voters.
The City of Seattle creates City Fish to counter the high price of fish. With construction complete, the configuration of the Market looks much like it does today. A branch of the Seattle Public Library opens on the lower floor. Arthur Goodwin takes over as manager of the Market from his uncle Frank. Arthur Goodwin's book, "Markets: Public and Private" is published, which becomes a textbook for the creation of other markets. In they purchase the grocery and create DeLaurenti.
Dance Hall operates in the Economy Market Building. During the Depression, the Market was a central community gathering place as well as a major food center. Artist Mark Tobey begins a years-long chronicle of the Market in sketches and paintings. The Sanitary Market building burns just days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Engineer Harlan Edwards, husband of Seattle City Council member Myrtle Edwards, proposes development in the Market that includes a 1,car parking garage. Pike Plaza Project proposed to rejuvenate the Market urban renewal. Skyscrapers would replace most Market buildings. The plan is backed by the mayor. Friends of the Market, led by architect and civic activist Victor Steinbrueck, forms to oppose plans to redevelop the Market.
Friends of the Market gathers 53, voter signatures to save the Market from the wrecking ball. A larger area is added to the historic district listing in Seattle voters approve Initiative 1 to "Keep the Market" from the wrecking ball. As the owner of the Leland Hotel on the corner of Pike Street and Pike Place, Frank Goodwin immediately recognized the great business opportunity provided by an adjoining public market.
He covered the sidewalk in front of his business for the farmers to use. Despite its use as a market, Pike Place remained a vital arterial for traffic into downtown and became even more important by with the extension of Elliott Avenue. Waterfront businesses and the Department of Streets and Sewers demanded that farmers be moved off the street, threatening the existence of the market. Instead, they voted to remove the farmers from the street onto the sidewalk, and accepted Goodwin's offer to provide additional space for farmers in a new Public Market building to be constructed across Western Avenue from the Main Market linked by a skybridge.
At first, the farmers were happy with this arrangement because a move to Westlake would have placed them outside of Seattle's then retail core along First and Second Avenues. As part of its contract, the City gave Goodwin's company the exclusive use of a central section of sidewalk, and allowed them to lease this space as they saw fit. It was assumed that Goodwin would rent this space to farmers or non-competing businesses. Instead, the stalls were leased to the dreaded "middlemen" - competing merchants who sold other farmers' produce including food imported from California.
The farmers organized a new group, the Associated Farmers, and chose to sue, contending it was illegal for the City to lease its sidewalks to private businesses.
A Superior Court judge ruled that no stalls were legal at all on public sidewalks, farmers' or otherwise.
The State Supreme Court overruled that decision, and soon afterwards the City put the issue to rest by vacating the section of sidewalk in question. The City was involved from the beginning in regulating the market. The title of Market Inspector was changed to Market Master in , and the position was transferred to the Health Department. The Health Department regularly inspected food at the market - especially meat, milk and other perishable goods - and ran the Municipal Fish Market from to The Weights and Measures Division of the Department of Public Utilities monitored the accuracy of scales, and the Lighting Department provided free lighting and electricity.
Farmers came from all over the surrounding region. To receive a permit to sell at the market, they were required to prove that their produce was grown on property either leased or owned by them, and that they also lived on this land.
Stalls were assigned by lottery; in rent was 10 cents per day. Given the competition for space, there were always complaints about favoritism by the Market Master or cheating by other farmers. In the s, two farmers' associations sprang up: the Washington Farmers Association representing Japanese farmers, and White Home Growers Association representing the rest, including European immigrant farmers. Although these associations sometimes cooperated on areas of common interest, tensions emerged.
Japanese immigrant farmers brought expertise in small plot farming and through industriousness were often able to charge lower prices for their produce. Given the racial sensibilities of the time and the fierce competition between farmers at the market, there were numerous movements in the early days to remove or restrict the Japanese farmers.
Official complaints were often couched in patriotism asserting that only native born citizens should be allowed to sell their goods or fairness accusing many of the Japanese of cheating by being 'dummy' tenants and selling produce from other farms.
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