Wall Drug - Wall South Dakota
Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota has a great history. In December, 1931, during the Great Depression, Ted Hustead and his wife Dorothy used a $3000 inheritance from Ted's dad to buy Wall Drug in the small poor town of Wall South Dakota. After several months of struggling, the couple decided to give it five years for business to pick up.
Near the end of the five year period, it was dreadfully hot in Wall. Dorothy had decided to nap while her two little ones were napping. The traffic on Hwy 16A kept her awake. She asked her husband what he thought all those people driving wanted. She finally said they wanted a glass of ice water. (Remember that cars in the 30s had no AC.)
Dorothy talked Ted into posting signs, fashioned after the famous Burma Shave signs, along Hwy 16 A advertising free ice water. As soon as the signs went up, people came to Wall Drug for a refreshing glass of cold water. That began the historic tourist attraction of Wall Drug.
In the video, the Two Tired Teachers show that Wall Drug is still a pharmacy, but today it is much more than that. The video may seem a bit jumpy because in September 2020, the year of Covid 19, South Dakota had no mask orders. We were avoiding people without masks.
We had spent the night in the Wall Drug parking lot. They have two large parking areas for people to use overnight. A third parking area clearly states that by ordinance of the city, there is no overnight parking. About 5 RVs were in the third area when we went to bed. Early the next morning, they were gone. We don't know whether they stayed all night and left early or whether they were told to move.
At around 8 AM we went in Wall Drug. It was not terribly crowded that early, and they do still have five cent coffee. Sharon aptly compared Wall Drug to an indoor strip mall. Many shops are in Wall Drug. Every inch of wall space in the hallways is covered with Wall memorabilia or South Dakota history, particularly of Native American.
Also included in Wall Drug is a cafe. On the afternoon we got into Wall, Sharon went to the cafe to do take out of "buffalo" (actually bison) burgers. In the afternoon the place was very crowded. Social distancing was not an option.
In back of the main building is an annex of sorts. In the courtyard between the main building and the other one are a jackalope and a bucking bronco with stairs on the side so little kids or those who are kids at heart can have photos taken with those. Also out back is also a what looks to be taxidermized bison.
Finally inside the second building is a T-rex dinosaur that roars at you.
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