Haymarket (Louisville)

The Haymarket referred to an outdoor farmers' market in Louisville, Kentucky.[1] The market occupied the block between Jefferson, Liberty, Floyd and Brook streets.[1] A small section extended south down Floyd Street. It was established in 1891 on the site of the city's earliest rail station, belonging to the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad.[1] The site had been cleared after the station relocated to First Street in 1881.

The Haymarket in 1920

1891–1962

Local truck farmers used the spot informally in the 1880s to sell goods directly to consumers.[2] A municipal market house on Market Street closed in 1888, the last of such houses on the street. In 1891 some of the farmers formed a stock company to purchase the former rail station space permanently. Despite the name, the Haymarket did not actually sell hay in any meaningful quantities.

By the end of the 1890s, city regulations allowed hucksters of fruits, vegetables and other products to use three feet of sidewalk to sell their goods. Many of the purchasers were grocers who would arrive at daybreak to buy goods for resale in their neighborhood stores. Consumers who ventured to Haymarket directly were called "curb buyers". While buying directly at the Haymarket required much more haggling than in a grocery, better deals could be had. Many of the early vendors were Italian and Lebanese immigrants.[2]

In the 1920s open sheds were built as cover from the weather for sellers and buyers. The Haymarket started to decline in the 1940s with the rise of chain groceries. Many vendors left for a suburban, rail-connected market in 1962. A few vendors attempted to hang on at the original site, but a ramp to Interstate 65 was built through the site and Haymarket closed after 71 years on September 1, 1962.[1]

1989–mid 2000s

An enclosed Haymarket was in place later at a different location from 1989 to the mid-2000s, which dissolved after "it was replaced by the Nucleus Building".[2]

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gollark: XTMF was not really designed for this use case, so it'll be quite hacky. What you can do is leave a space at the start of the tape of a fixed size, and stick the metadata at the start of that fixed-size region; the main problem is that start/end locations are relative to the end of the metadata, not the start of the tape, so you'll have to recalculate the offsets each time the metadata changes size. Unfortunately, I just realized now that the size of the metadata can be affected by what the offset is.
gollark: The advantage of XTMF is that your tapes would be playable by any compliant program for playback, and your thing would be able to read tapes from another program.
gollark: Tape Shuffler would be okay with it, Tape Jockey doesn't have the same old-format parsing fallbacks and its JSON handling likely won't like trailing nuls, no idea what tako's program thinks.
gollark: Although I think some parsers might *technically* be okay with you reserving 8190 bytes for metadata but then ending it with a null byte early, and handle the offsets accordingly, I would not rely on it.

See also

References
  1. Elson, Martha (August 28, 2015). "Farmers markets roots trace to old Haymarket". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  2. Stevens, Ashlie (April 14, 2017). "Louisville's Haymarket Is A Window Into Immigration Politics Today". 89.3 WFPL News. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
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