Remember the days of the Burma Shave signs along every highway in America? Well, like those signs I saw for hundreds of miles signs advertising Wall Drug in Wall SD. The signs had tempting notes like 5Cent coffee or 5 cent ice cream cones. Well, I couldn't avoid the temptation and stopped to check out the drug store. What I found shocked me. More than 75,000 square feet (probably equal to half the total town footage) of every kind of western gift, clothing eatery, or about anything else you might want. I learned the drug store got the start in 1931 when the owner bought the drug store near the edge of the Badlands and promoted traffic by posting signs on the roads offering "free" ice water. This creative pharmacy graduate found the way to an incredible tourist oasis in the middle of SD. Pretty amazing and worth several hours of browsing.
Remember the days of the Burma Shave signs along every highway in America? Well, like those signs I saw for hundreds of miles signs advertising Wall Drug in Wall SD. The signs had tempting notes like 5Cent coffee or 5 cent ice cream cones. Well, I couldn't avoid the temptation and stopped to check out the drug store. What I found shocked me. More than 75,000 square feet (probably equal to half the total town footage) of every kind of western gift, clothing eatery, or about anything else you might want. I learned the drug store got the start in 1931 when the owner bought the drug store near the edge of the Badlands and promoted traffic by posting signs on the roads offering "free" ice water. This creative pharmacy graduate found the way to an incredible tourist oasis in the middle of SD. Pretty amazing and worth several hours of browsing. 
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