On Thursday, May 31, about 100 people, including vendors and the media, showed up before midnight at Metropolitan Market on upper Queen Anne.
The occasion: The countdown to Friday, June 1 and the official privatization of liquor sales as a result of last fall’s Initiative 1183.
Metropolitan Market COO Todd Korman led the countdown with a bullhorn as the crowd counted down with him. The first purchaser was Toulouse Petit’s Joe Jeannot (being interviewed), who came away with a bottle of Freemont Mischief.