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Los Angeles Sparks guard Kelsey Plum's new player-exclusive Under Armour basketball shoes pay tribute to Seattle's Gum Wall.
This is the second Kelsey Plum PE that Under Armour has made available to the public this season, following the ‘Plumberry’ ...
The Gum Wall at Pike Place Market is about to vanish. The sticky tourist attraction in Seattle will be steam-blasted clean of all the icky wads of chewed gum that have been stuck to it for decades.
Seattle's "gum wall," on which tourists and locals visiting Pike Place Market have mashed more than 1 million pieces of old chewing gum, began getting a deep clean on Tuesday for the first time in ...
Seattle's famous gum wall, in Post Alley near Pike Place Market, was cleaned last week for the first time in 20 years. It didn't stay clean for long, though, as visitors had already begun re ...
With this said, I bring you some sad news. The gum wall we know and love is getting CLEANED. For the first time in 20 years (!!!), the gum wall will be scrubbed down.
The Gum Wall has been "a thing" in Seattle for about 20 years, and according to Smithsonian Magazine, there are an estimated 1,000,000 pieces of gum on the wall, in some areas amounting to six ...
Sketched Nov. 9, 2015 Years ago, when I first discovered the Seattle Gum Wall in a hidden alley of Pike Place Market, I was stunned by what I saw. The chewy canvas of color and texture was ...
The Gum Wall Will Have Its Revenge on Seattle Published Nov 15, 2015 at 5:40 PM EST Updated May 01, 2016 at 5:16 PM EDT ...
A worker uses a powerful steam cleaner to work decades of gum off a "gum wall" that stretches behind and above him, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson / AP ...
The Pike Place Market estimates the wall holds 750,000 wads of gum. Its Preservation and Development Authority works to keep the 8-foot-high, 54-foot-wide curiosity from going too far.
Once the wall is clean, people will be allowed to put gum back up again. The Gum Wall has grown to eight feet high and over 54 feet wide, with approximately 150 pieces of gum per brick.