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San luis obispo bubble gum wall
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Bubblegum Alley
Tourist attraction in San Luis Obispo, CA
Bubblegum Alley is a tourist attraction in downtown San Luis Obispo, California, known for its accumulation of used bubble gum on the walls of an alley.[1] It is a 15-foot (4.6 m) high and 70-foot (21 m) long alley lined with chewed gum left by passers-by.
It covers a stretch of 20 meters in the 700 block of Higuera Street in downtown San Luis Obispo.[1][2]
History
According to the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Business Improvement Association (BIA), the origin of the gum is "a little sketchy".[3] Some historians believe that the tradition of the alley started after WWII as a San Luis Obispo High School graduating class event.[4] Others believe it started in the late 1950s, as the rivalry between San Luis Obispo High School and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) students.[3] By the 1970s, Bubblegum Alley was we