WASHINGTON D.C., DC — It was a celebration along 7th Street SE Sunday afternoon as Eastern Market celebrated 150 years.
The popular market opened on November 12, 1873, in the heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
According to the city, it's D.C.'s only historic public market building that is still operating as a public market.
"It's still going and there's still remnants of that old culture but also all the new stuff," said Sara Nichols who was at Eastern Market Sunday afternoon.
The popular outdoor portion of the market is open nearly every weekend. The indoor portion is open Tuesday-Sunday. But, it was nearly shuttered by a massive fire in 2007. Two years later, they were back up and running.
"I remember how everything came back after the fire. Everybody pulled together," said Louise Chapman as she sat and watched the live music Sunday afternoon.
"I came out at 3 o'clock in the morning to pray for this building to stay intact," said Eleanor Drabo. She tells WUSA9 she's been selling her handmade jewelry at the market for 32 years.
"People can now design a lot of things online. But when people come and touch and feel the pieces I've made. They can realize there is a significant difference," said Drabo.
Everyone WUSA9 spoke to on Sunday shared their favorite memories of Eastern Market.
"We both lived in the neighborhood and would walk over here every weekend, whether we needed something from the market or not it was just to be here," said Shelley Moskowitz.
Another woman shared that her first memory was as a child, when she and her mom would come to the market and her mom would shop for meat.
"My first memory is eating Ukranian food, with my little little kids wheeling them over here," said Nichols.
"Definitely holiday shopping. It was like 20 years ago, I was enamored it was like the place to go for any tiny thing for anything that was unusual for anything cool and hip," said Karen Lovejoy.