I popped a piece of Spearmint gum in my mouth at Pike Place Market, in anticipation of visiting the Seattle Gum Wall. I wanted to be ready to make a contribution.
The Seattle gum wall is located in Post Alley, just downstairs from Pikes, at the box office of the Market Theater.
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Back in the 90s, patrons of the theater started to stick their chewing gum on the wall, many times with coins stuck inside. The coins have since disappeared, I thoroughly searched, but the gum remains. Lots of gum. Though the theater workers tried to scrape the blobs off, they stopped when the wall was deemed a tourist attraction in 1999.
Trident, Wrigley, Extra, Orbit? They must all be represented here.
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This oddity of the Seattle Gum Wall was named one of the top five germiest tourist attractions, along with the Blarney Stone. Considering that Peter is a, self-proclaimed, germaphobe, he gets deathly close. Do you see him shaking? I consider this cheap therapy.
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You can not visit the Seattle Gum Wall without making a contribution, so I blew a bubble to make sure my gum had the proper consistency prior to placing it on the wall.
With 50+ feet of wall to choose from it was difficult to pick the perfect local for my donation. But, I thought orange would be an excellent background for my crisp, white addition.
The tricky part was placing the gum without anyone else.
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Ta da. My Spearmint hits the Seattle Gum Wall.
Have you make a contribution to the Seattle Gum Wall? What is the oddest attraction you have ever seen?
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I have to say, I like new things, but this is literally one of the grossest things I've ever seen……I HATE other people's saliva and to be near so much of it! Oh, I cannot bear thinking about it!
I am needless to say, very impressed you managed to add to it :-)
Ha Ha! It is super gross, yet really cool at the same time ;)
I stumbled across this wall without even knowing about it….what a surprise it was!
That would be a surprise! In a creepy, gross, yet intriguing way ;)
Now that is interesting… gum rom around the saliva world!
I wonder how many countries and cities are represented?
That's so neat! I've never been to Seattle but if I go I will most definitely stop here :)
Seattle is a wonderful city, I hope you make it there one day :)
Wow! I had never heard of the gum wall in Seattle. It looks a little gross but I think I'll have to make a contribution when I visit the city!
If you think about it, it is pretty gross. But, really cool too!
I'm so bummed! I was downstairs at the market this summer, but had never heard of the gum wall, so I didn't walk far enough to ever find it. I was within 25 yards of the wall and never saw it until I got back on my group's bus and saw other people's pictures. Very anoying :-/
That is a bummer! You’ll just have to go back ;)
This post is hilarious! yes, I did make my own contribution to the wall a few years back! I wish I had documented it too!
Cheap fun :)
Okay…you have become my travel blogging idol, but now I’m thinking you and everyone who has made a contribution to this wall are just plain crazy. :-) This, for someone who hates even accidentally touching one person’s gum stuck to the underside of a restaurant table, is worse than pretty much any of the strange gross food you write about. My uncle’s post office had a locker full of people’s banana stickers, but who had this idea? When my computer’s voice software program first read this post to me I thought Seattle had a “Gun Wall”. I guess this is better and safer than that, unless you hate germs. I can’t believe this is up there with the Blarney Stone. I did kiss that I suppose. Hope to write about it and post pictures on my new Bucket List section soon.
Now if I would have kissed the wall it would have been much grosser ;) But, I made sure to not touch anyone else’s gum!