The Seattle City Council celebrated 40 years of street performing on Sept. 8 with Jim Page, a musician instrumental in the 1974 legislation that legalized busking. Page had two minutes to speak at the council meeting, so he whipped out his guitar and sang verses of a song he wrote called “Jim’s Song” about fellow busker Jim Hilde. A Vietnam Navy veteran, Hilde suffered from post traumatic stress disorder but found he had a natural talent for music. “I watched him learn to write these songs, I watched him get good and I watched him put his children through school by playing on the sidewalk at Pike Place Market,” Page said.