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The Gum Wall is a brick wall situated beneath Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. Located on Post Alley near Pike Street, south of the market's main entrance off 1st Avenue, the wall is covered with used chewing gum.
Nov 10, 2022 · Post last updated March 8, 2023. Seattle has some weird landmarks. There’s a market famous for throwing salmon at people, the Space Needle with its rotating restaurant, a “haunted” soda machine, and then there’s the Gum Wall. It’s exactly what it sounds like, an alley that’s become famed for being coated in layers of gum.
The Gum Wall has to be one of the top spots for photo-ops in Seattle, and that’s the case for a reason. Who sees historic, red-brick walls enclosing a narrow, steep, cobblestone alley with thousands of vivid splotches of gum plastered on either side? Who sees that everyday? The Gum Wall is super iconic to the city and the greater icon of the ...
Feb 8, 2023 · About the Gum Wall. Down an unassuming alleyway in Pike Place Market is a hidden work of art dubbed The Gum Wall. This unexpected and colorful display is an intriguing representation of Seattle’s unique charm and character. The Gum Wall started in the 1990s when local patrons and performers at Unexpected Productionsstuck their used gum on the ...
Apr 26, 2021 · Considered a collective art project, The Wall of Gum in Seattle has become a popular landmark. Bubble gum of all flavors and colors await you inside Post Alley, just below Pike Place Market. The wall is eight feet tall and over fifty feet long… and it just keeps growing.
Mar 29, 2022 · There’s a reason the Seattle Selfie Museum set up shop next to the influencer magnet, and veritable city landmark, known today as the Gum Wall. Grunge famously took off here in the early 1990s, but a different flavor of griminess quietly surfaced in Seattle around the same time.
Jul 8, 2009 · Seattle, Washington. A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art. Been Here? 6420. Want to Visit? 1936. Gum Wall window ledge. Down an unassuming alleyway next to Seattle’s famed Pike...
