ARTISTIC BUBBLEGUM
ALLEY IN CALIFORNIA
G'day folks,
Welcome to an alley covered with 20 years of bubblegum.
The Bubblegum Alley to end all bubblegum alleys is located in San Luis
Obispo, CA. There, the Bubblegum Alley is a local tourist landmark and
one of the town’s “most-talked-about landmark(s).”
A sizable 65 feet long and 15 feet high, this alleyway began in the
1950’s, though it is unclear exactly how or why it began. Among the
favorite of the explanations is a rivalry between the San Luis Obispo
High School and Cal Poly students.
What has been more impressive is the gum alley’s tenacity. Fully
cleaned twice in the 1970’s, it came back each time. By the 1990’s, the
gum alley had been there for so long that when the local business
association tried to have it cleaned once again, they were politely
refused.
The gum alley is by far the most famous in the world and has been
featured on The Tonight Show, MTV, That’s Incredible!, Real People, PBS
and written about in newspapers from the San Francisco Chronicle to The
Guardian in Manchester, United Kingdom.
The local business, however, are less enthused about it and still
feel that the alleyway should be cleaned up, or gated in the night when
people leaving local pubs tend to leave both gum and bodily fluids
behind.
Clancy's comment: Mm ... Art has many forms, eh? Why not bubblegum?
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