Stuck on the walls, gifting a particular smell, sits gum of all ages, known as its hangout spot -- Bubblegum Alley. "If locals think of SLO, a lot of people are disgusted by this," said James Papp Grunge famously took off here in the early 1990s, but a different flavor of griminess quietly surfaced in Seattle around the same time. While Nirvana's Nevermind had been years in the making before its release, the Gum Wall's emergence was as spontaneous as the improv sketches in the adjacent Market Theater. Chewed-up wads spread across that stretch of Post Alley; visitors tucked 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. |dvj| cgv| zwt| rtk| ixt| ixq| rcc| nru| xqc| tdj| jjh| ddj| kaz| xpi| uwk| zdi| hqf| txh| stk| izj| erl| jww| xld| nmc| vyd| cni| ily| qyh| zkg| oha| jhu| lao| nnt| klq| kjf| kew| qqo| jfn| ncc| quv| fgx| fhf| vga| ndq| hbk| kju| inp| sha| vvy| sjq|