It may not mean very much to you out-of-
towners, but this picture of the underside of a bronze pig below the Space Needle is quite the rarity. When we found out that Rachael the Pig was going to take a small site seeing tour of Seattle before being replanted on her pedestal at the Pike Place Public Market, we had no choice but to visit her as she visited the Needle. Rachael was at the Space Needle on a Sunday morning in March, so we had to rush down there, snap some pictures with our porky pal, then get back to
Puyallup in time for church at 1:30. These are the kinds of extremes one must go to in order to have such a rare photo. Let's just say that it's not likely that Rachael, being a 550 pound bronze cast piggy bank, will ever be so itinerant again, so we couldn't stand to miss out.
Since 1986 Rachael has been hanging out just to the left and underneath the famous Public Market sign at the end of Pike Street in downtown Seattle. Her main function is to collect donations for the market to maintain it's social services function, which she does successfully to the tune of around $7,500 each year. She also serves as a great place to set your kid for a pig jockey photo opportunity. There's usually a line for that picture, especially when the cruise boats are in town. The Public Market that Rachel presides over is a lot of fun. This is where the fish get thrown from one side of the store to the other, and you can buy any type of seafood or produce you could ever imagine.
Not only that, but all the craftsmen and florists that line the halls have provided me with many Birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day, Anniversary and Valentine's Day presents over the last year and a half. There was a great episode of Frasier ("Frasier Crane Day") where Niles and Frasier were walking through the market and Niles nearly got hit by a tossed fish. Great stuff. Here's the Zoe standing by Rachael in October of 2009.
A horrible tragedy befell Rachael on February 5
th, 2011, when a taxi driver hit the gas instead of the brakes and ran her over. The impact knocked her down and scratched her up really good, which required about a month's worth of repairs. No one really knows if the cab driver survived the crash, but if he did shame should be on him. SHAME! I was so glad to hear that Rachael was to be re-installed to her prior prominence so quickly after her accident. Rachael's bodyguards during her stop at the Space Needle probably thought we were some kind of psycho
pigophiles as we posed in front of her for many pictures all the while asking her if she was feeling okay. Zoe only held still for a few minutes while we visited Rachael, and we were lucky to get this picture of her. Look how much she has grown in just a year and a half...like a weed! I wish they had turned Rachael's green truck around so that we could have gotten pictures of her face with the Space Needle in the background. My current profile picture is of all four of us with Rachael, it's nice to have the entire family in one picture.
It may not mean very much to you out-of-towners, but this picture of the underside of a bronze pig below the Space Needle is quite the rarity. When we found out that Rachael the Pig was going to take a small site seeing tour of Seattle before being replanted on her pedestal at the Pike Place Public Market, we had no choice but to visit her as she visited the Needle. Rachael was at the Space Needle on a Sunday morning in March, so we had to rush down there, snap some pictures with our porky pal, then get back to Puyallup in time for church at 1:30. These are the kinds of extremes one must go to in order to have such a rare photo. Let's just say that it's not likely that Rachael, being a 550 pound bronze cast piggy bank, will ever be so itinerant again, so we couldn't stand to miss out.
Since 1986 Rachael has been hanging out just to the left and underneath the famous Public Market sign at the end of Pike Street in downtown Seattle. Her main function is to collect donations for the market to maintain it's social services function, which she does successfully to the tune of around $7,500 each year. She also serves as a great place to set your kid for a pig jockey photo opportunity. There's usually a line for that picture, especially when the cruise boats are in town. The Public Market that Rachel presides over is a lot of fun. This is where the fish get thrown from one side of the store to the other, and you can buy any type of seafood or produce you could ever imagine. 
Not only that, but all the craftsmen and florists that line the halls have provided me with many Birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day, Anniversary and Valentine's Day presents over the last year and a half. There was a great episode of Frasier ("Frasier Crane Day") where Niles and Frasier were walking through the market and Niles nearly got hit by a tossed fish. Great stuff. Here's the Zoe standing by Rachael in October of 2009.
A horrible tragedy befell Rachael on February 5th, 2011, when a taxi driver hit the gas instead of the brakes and ran her over. The impact knocked her down and scratched her up really good, which required about a month's worth of repairs. No one really knows if the cab driver survived the crash, but if he did shame should be on him. SHAME! I was so glad to hear that Rachael was to be re-installed to her prior prominence so quickly after her accident. Rachael's bodyguards during her stop at the Space Needle probably thought we were some kind of psycho pigophiles as we posed in front of her for many pictures all the while asking her if she was feeling okay. Zoe only held still for a few minutes while we visited Rachael, and we were lucky to get this picture of her. Look how much she has grown in just a year and a half...like a weed! I wish they had turned Rachael's green truck around so that we could have gotten pictures of her face with the Space Needle in the background. My current profile picture is of all four of us with Rachael, it's nice to have the entire family in one picture.
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