When the Market opened in August 1907, farmers just backed their carts up to the curbs and sold their produce out of the backs. At the time, Pike Place was a wood-plank thoroughfare.

A view of First Avenue circa the 1920s. A guard at the Liberty Theater, near the center of this photo, would watch shoppers' parcels while they went to the movies.

An inspector checks the scale of a vegetable vendor whose stall was in the "wet row" (there was no canopy over it) in 1919.