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Nov 6, 2015 · Seattle’s Famous ‘Gum Wall’ Is Getting Scraped Clean. An estimated 1,000,000 pieces of chewing gum are stuck to the quirky attraction. For 20 years, passersby have stuck freshly-chewed wads ...
Nov 10, 2015 · After 20 years and roughly 1 million pieces of gum later, Seattle's "Gum Wall" is getting scraped clean. ... A steam machine is blasting away the estimated 1 million pieces of gum, but not ...
Apr 26, 2021 · It was named one of the top 5 germiest tourist attractions in the world in 2009! 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 ...
Nov 4, 2015 · And to mark the big clean, the market is having a gum wall photo contest on its Facebook page. A must-see for Seattle visitors, Pike Place Market opened more than a century ago on August 17, 1907.
Nov 16, 2015 · This time lapse video shows the work in 30 seconds. SEATTLE -- After 130 hours, Seattle's iconic 'GUM WALL' has been cleaned off. The gum filled 94 one-gallon buckets, which weighed a total of 2,350 pounds (1.175 tons). This time-lapse video shows the work in 30 seconds. Now it's time to rebuild, so chew away!
Sep 17, 2018 · The wall was cleared of gum for the second time ever on Friday night. The first time was in 2015. The reason for the cleaning? Preserving the physical wall. Back in 2015, there were an estimated ...
Nov 10, 2022 · The cleaning began on November 10th, 2015. To successfully clean the walls, the water reached 280 degrees Fahrenheit. The amount of gum cleaned off the wall ended up filling 94 buckets and weighed 2,350 pounds ( our bet is this final weight didn’t get all the gum!) The cleaning took about 130 hours.
