Reading II term

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This week in Holiday Horizons you can read about tourist attractions with a difference. Bubblegum Alley, San Luis Obispo, USA In 1950, this was just a normal passage between buildings. Then, students from two local schools started to leave their bubblegum on its walls. They wrote messages with the gum and made pictures. Some people loved the bubblegum in the alley, but others hated it and local shopkeepers cleaned it a few times. But the students and their bubblegum always came back. Today the alley is called Bubblegum Alley and it is still full of gum. Students leave most of it, but tourists and artists leave gum, too. Artist Matthew Hoffman has recently made a big picture of a man blowing a bubble! ‘It’s fantastic!’ says one visitor. ‘Disgusting!’ says another. What do you think?

What was the original purpose of the passage that became Bubblegum Alley?

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This week in Holiday Horizons you can read about tourist attractions with a difference. Bubblegum Alley, San Luis Obispo, USA In 1950, this was just a normal passage between buildings. Then, students from two local schools started to leave their bubblegum on its walls. They wrote messages with the gum and made pictures. Some people loved the bubblegum in the alley, but others hated it and local shopkeepers cleaned it a few times. But the students and their bubblegum always came back. Today the alley is called Bubblegum Alley and it is still full of gum. Students leave most of it, but tourists and artists leave gum, too. Artist Matthew Hoffman has recently made a big picture of a man blowing a bubble! ‘It’s fantastic!’ says one visitor. ‘Disgusting!’ says another. What do you think?

How did Bubblegum Alley start to develop?

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This week in Holiday Horizons you can read about tourist attractions with a difference. Bubblegum Alley, San Luis Obispo, USA In 1950, this was just a normal passage between buildings. Then, students from two local schools started to leave their bubblegum on its walls. They wrote messages with the gum and made pictures. Some people loved the bubblegum in the alley, but others hated it and local shopkeepers cleaned it a few times. But the students and their bubblegum always came back. Today the alley is called Bubblegum Alley and it is still full of gum. Students leave most of it, but tourists and artists leave gum, too. Artist Matthew Hoffman has recently made a big picture of a man blowing a bubble! ‘It’s fantastic!’ says one visitor. ‘Disgusting!’ says another. What do you think?

How did the local shopkeepers react to the growing collection of bubblegum?