The Seattle Gum Wall has been gathering gum since the early 1990s when people waiting for shows at nearby Unexpected Productions would stick gum to the wall to pass the time. Although theater workers tried to keep the wall clean when this tradition first started to happen, the number of people who added to it daily overwhelmed the theater's cleaning capabilities It was only cleared off once, in 2015, and the work took 130 hours to complete. Soon after, visitors quickly began adding gum to the wall again; if you visit today, you might never guess that it was cleaned at all.
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