ABC gum anyone?

   












      According to Wikipedia: "the Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick alleyway wall now covered in used chewing gum. Parts of the wall are covered several inches thick, 15 feet high for 50 feet"
I can vouch for this! 
     On a recent trip to Seattle, Abi and I found the "Gum Wall". It's not far off the beaten path around the Pike Place Market In downtown Seattle. From just a few feet away, it is beautiful, with colorful, mosaic areas of pictures made with blobs of used gum. In some places it resembles the eyechart test for color-blindness, with thinly disguised names and sayings squished into place by hands that fear no germ, neither foreign or domestic.
Up close, it is quite another experience. Although still very colorful, it is gross, yet it almost draws one in, much like the tractor beam of vintage Star Trek episodes. You can scarcely look away, Only the quiet, persistent "vibe-out" of other would-be gum admirers is enough to move you along, till you are just outside the power of this altar to a chicled entity. Good times, good times indeed.