Seattle's Gross and Cool Gum Wall Will Be Blasted Clean
If it has long been your wish to stand and marvel with your own two eyes at a brick wall coated in thousands and thousands of wads of chewed gum, do it soon—Seattle’s famous Gum Wall at Pike Place Market will be steam-blasted clean later this month.
Look at this disgusting thing.
Photo via Daniel Schwen, Wikimedia Commons
Via a Los Angeles Times report:
The brick wall, also known as the Market Theater Gum Wall, is in Post Alley under the market. As one of the most photographed sites in the market, it has been tagged 80,000 times on Instagram. The tradition began in the ‘90s when theatergoers started sticking wads of gum to the bricks while waiting in line.
Right, so, it’s gross—very gross!—but also cool, and it’s a bit of a bummer that it’ll be gone soon. The steam cleaning will begin at 8 a.m. on November 10 and is expected to take a couple days.
Happily, the wall is expected to return, just as quickly as thousands of people can cram their sticky, spit-coated chewed gum up there. This is reportedly the third time it’s been cleaned in its history, and it has always come back, in all its horrifying, disgusting glory.
