The Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick wall lined with chewing gum, in an alley in downtown Seattle. Located in Post Alley under Pike Place Market. Similar to Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, California, Market Theater Gum Wall is a local landmark. The sections of the wall can be covered several inches thick, 15 feet high for 50 feet.
The wall is at the box office for Market Theater, and tradition began around 1993 when customers from Seattle Theatresports unexpected production stuck to chewing gum against the wall and placed coins in rubber clumps. The theater workers scraped the gum twice, but eventually surrendered after market officials regarded the cork wall as a tourist attraction around 1999. Some people make small art pieces from chewing gum.
It was named one of the 5 most interesting sights in 2009, second to Blarney Stone. This is the location of the start of a ghost tour, and it is a popular site with wedding photographers.
The scene for the movie Jennifer Aniston 2009 Love Happens was shot on the wall in 2008.
On 3 November 2015, announced by Pike Place Market Preservation & amp; The Development Authority for the first time in 20 years of gum walls will receive a total scrub for steam maintenance and cleaning, to prevent further erosion of the brick on the walls from sugar in gom. Work began on November 10 and took 130 hours to complete, with over 2,350 pounds (1,070 kg) of chewing gum removed and discarded. After the cleaning is completed on November 13, the gum starts to be added back to the wall; among the first additions is a warning for November 2015 attacks in Paris.
Video Gum Wall
See also
- Bubblegum Alley
Maps Gum Wall
References
External links
- Media associated with Gum, Seattle, Washington wall on Wikimedia Commons
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