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40 years ago a small alley in the United States was littered with bottle caps, but now throw a tourist attraction

Sep 19, 2025
40 years ago a small alley in the United States was littered with bottle caps, but now throw a tourist attraction

Seattle has one of the world's dirtiest attractions: chewing gum concentration, and the United States of this alley concentrated in a variety of bottle caps, the original is also just a dump, due to 40 years of accumulation, has now become an attraction, called bottle cap alley.

Bottle cap alley is located near Texas A&M University, the alley is about 50 meters long and 2 meters wide, at the beginning there were only bars and restaurants on both sides of the alley to throw beer bottles, soda bottles bottle caps.

Gradually a habit was formed, and the little ones packing out also threw bottle caps here, and then after it spread and took shape, everyone followed suit.

Finally, the nearby bars and so on will be specially packaged bottle caps sent here, this tradition probably lasted nearly 40 years.

Bottle cap alley, gradually rose to fame, and in the early 21st century, was officially considered a tourist attraction, with a sign "Bottle Cap Alley" erected at the entrance, and decorated with lights for people to play at night.

Due to the increase of tourists, some people like to take some bottle caps with them, so the caps are decreasing, and many companies are working to preserve it, and as many as 380,000 beer caps have been dumped by companies.

This is a rare treasure for bottle cap collectors, and an international bottle cap gallery is expected to be built in the future so that this place can be better protected.

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