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  Wall Drug Store, Wall, South Dakota
Wall Drug is a sprawling tourist mall that occupies the majority of downtown Wall, which used to be known by locals as "the geographical center of nowhere." That was before Ted Hustead came along.
Wall Drug was managed through the 1970s to the '90s by Bill Hustead, Ted's son, and under his guiding hand it grew considerably.
Wall Drug's famous free ice-water well is still out in the Wall Drug Back Yard, where it pumps several thousands of gallons of water cooled by one and one-half tons of man-made ice on a good summer's day.
www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/SDWALdrug.html   (1129 words)

  
 Wall Drug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wall Drug is a tourist attraction located in the town of Wall, South Dakota, one of the towns nearest the Badlands National Park.
Wall Drug includes a western art museum, a chapel based on the one found at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa, and an enormous 80 foot Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus) that can be seen right off Interstate 90.
To date, Wall Drug still offers free ice water (in the form of a cone shaped paper cup and water from a faucet, there is no ice), but as they have become more popular, they have started to offer free bumper stickers, signs to aid in promotion, and Coffee for 5 cents.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wall_Drug   (472 words)

  
 Wall Drug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Now Wall Drug occupies a city block (all of the buildings in this photo) and is a bustling testament to free enterprise.
Wall was truly the "geographic center of nowhere".
Bill had the vision to create the family attraction that Wall Drug is today, a 76,000 square foot western wonderland that is enjoyed by 20,000 visitors each day during the summer season, from all over the world.
www.cactushill.com /Travels/2006/24-Wall.htm   (292 words)

  
 Wall, South Dakota - Wall Drug Store
This drug store in the dry wastelands has become a mega-tourist trap and classic vacation stop for generations of thirsty travelers.
Wall Drug suffered a fire that damaged a dining room and the kitchen on April 29th.
I expected something world-class, given the piles of money Wall Drug makes each season but we found the museum to contain very few pharmacy related artifacts, all of which were up on a high shelf so anyone under 6 feet tell can't even see most of them.
www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==4011   (804 words)

  
 Arts & Leisure: What's up with Wall Drug (Memphis Flyer . 09-07-99)
Wall Drug is a stop on the Must-Stop Circuit, along with Rock City and Ruby Falls and Graceland.
But to really understand Wall Drug, one has to grasp exactly where it is. It's in western South Dakota, which looks like any other place, only with everything taken out of it.
The Wall Drug signs have, in fact, taken on a fame of their own.
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 Wall Drug South Dakota: An Original Tourist Trap - travel industry, South Dakota Parks & Recreation - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Wall Drug was a direct beneficiary of this 1950s Eisenhower era initiative.
Other Wall Drug aficionados have traveled to the ends of the Earth with the signs, photographed them, and then sent them back to the Husteads just for the fun of it.
The photos convey the impression, warranted or not, that Wall Drug is known and beloved internationally.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1145/is_9_36/ai_78860758   (1031 words)

  
 Digging Wall Drug : The University Daily Kansan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Wall, South Dakota will be my home for the next three days, and Wall Drug is the lure.
Wall will be my home for the next three days, and Wall Drug is the lure.
Wall by the numbers 1,812 Miles traveled 361 Semi trucks blaring horns 11 Red Bulls consumed 4 Animals meeting their fate with a bug-smeared front fender.
www.kansan.com /stories/2004/sep/27/digging_wall_dr   (3204 words)

  
 ROAD TO NOWHERE
But today’s 50,000 square-foot Wall Drug is a different story: it can feed, clothe, and entertain the entire family for hours.
  Wall Drug (605/279-2175) is at 510 Main Street, at the center of Wall, South Dakota (pop.
Apart from Wall Drug, the other reason to visit is the chance to tour a real-life nuclear missile silo, at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (daily; 605/433-5552), off I-90 exit 131.
www.roadtripusa.com /routes/roadtonowhere/southdakota/no_walldrug.html   (357 words)

  
 Wall Drug
Wall Drug is located in the town of Wall, South Dakota, in the western part of the State.
Wall's population is 800 and the town is situated 8 miles from the Badlands, 55 miles from Rapid City, and 70 miles from Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills.
Student Housing at Wall Drug consists of 32 dormitories which are homes we have purchased in Wall and converted to housing for summer employees.
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 Wall Drug, South Dakota
In 1931, the Hustead family moved to Wall and soon found themselves living in the back of the drug store, whose only asset was a broken soda fountain.
The apothecary downstairs is museum replica of the early drug store but upstairs Bill Hustead dispenses drugs as three generations of his family have done since 1890.
Be sure to pick up your free cup of ice water when you visit as well as one other freebie: your own Wall Drug sign to take home and post like the millions of others that have been shipped to military personnel all over the world.
www.lovetripper.com /ARTICLES/a.us.sd.walldrug.html   (746 words)

  
 Wall Drug
Wall Drug is also known for its creative advertising, the famous road signs.
Wall Drug does not charge admission, but again, the souvenirs and food are quite expensive.
Downtown Wall (population 800) has a few parking lots meant for Wall Drug patrons, and if you can’t find a spot on the street, you might have a short hike from one of these lots.
users.gurulink.com /wildebeest/wall_drug.htm   (572 words)

  
 Wall Drug - FlyerTalk Forums
Wall Drug is just one of many -- the road from Rapid City to Mount Rushmore is loaded with them, and the town of Keystone has nothing but tourist trap businesses.
Wall Drug is kitchy Americana, not unlike South of the Border, and (in a much different vein) Las Vegas.
Wall Drug is advertised throughout the United States, on London’s double-decker buses and on road signs in Paris, Amsterdam and Rome.
www.flyertalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=285470   (1216 words)

  
 Wall, SD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In addition to the drug store, there are a number of other stores that all cater to the tourist, with all on the one street except for motels and restraurants.
Rapid City is about 50 miles west of Wall, and Sturgis is another 30 miles to the west along Interstate 90, the direction we planned to go on the 5th.
We figured if Wall was full of cyclists, Rapid City was likely to be overloaded, and we did find the one room, even if it was an over priced, stinking smoking room.
lewbar.tripod.com /wall/wall.html   (341 words)

  
 Rapid City Regional Hospital - Wall Clinic - Wall, S.D.
Wall Clinic is a family practice rural health clinic staffed by a certified nurse practitioner.
The Wall Clinic is managed by Rapid City Regional Hospital.
The Wall Clinic is located in downtown Wall (two blocks south of Wall Drug) which is approximately 50 miles east of Rapid City, S.D. Wall Clinic
www.rcrh.org /Facilities/Clinics/Wall.asp   (63 words)

  
 Wall Drug
Wall Drug Store survived the Depression by offering free ice water to thirsty travelers on their way to the Black Hills.
By the way, in addition to being a tourist trap, Wall drug is actually a working store for residents in the Wall area, so the prices aren't as touristy as you might think, especially if you need ranch clothes or cowboy boots...
Wall Drug is near the Badlands National Park (exit 110 on I-90) and the Minuteman Missile Site (Exit 131 on I-90).
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 Wall, South Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wall is a town in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.
The town is most famous for Wall Drug Store, which opened as a small pharmacy during the Depression but eventually developed into a large roadside tourist attraction.
Wall has been assigned the ZIP code 57790 and the FIPS place code 68380.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wall,_South_Dakota   (424 words)

  
 Monopolize Your Marketplace New Rules of Marketing Marketing Advertising MYMonline Rich Harshaw - ART - 012 - Wall Drug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It sits on the edge of the Dakota Badlands, and under normal conditions, it would be one of those no-stoplight towns you'd never exit for in a million years unless nature was calling in the fiercest of ways and you didn't have an empty pop bottle handy.
Ted is the third generation owner of Wall Drug, the mother-lode of all weary tourist oases.
While most rest stops are nothing more than gas stations with 7-11's attached to them, Wall Drug is a block-sized bonanza of refreshment, shopping, and entertainment opportunities, including carnival games, museums, a shopping mall, restrooms, restaurants, an arcade, a gas station, a playground complete with an 80-foot dinosaur, and more.
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 Site Template -- Geneology
ANYBODY who watched Ted Hustead roll into Wall, South Dakota, on a cattle truck in December, 1931, his wife and 4-year-old son at his side, the family's entire stock of meager possessions piled in the back, would have needed quite a crystal ball to predict the future.
Certainly, in 1931 it would have been hard to predict that anyone who settled in Wall would make much of a mark, let alone a 28-year-old pharmacist who had used the entire,000 he inherited from his father to buy the town's lone drugstore.
In time, Hustead was spending,000 a year on billboard advertising, including Wall Drug signs on London buses and in every train station in Kenya.
hustead.ourfamily.com   (547 words)

  
 Web Off the Wall Drug Awareness
Children are often the victims of cocaine- or crack-using parents and suffer from pre natal exposure or parental abuse.
For the overwhelming majority, compulsive use prompts behavior that is self-destructive and irresponsible, often antisocial, and characteristically indifferent to the injury, pain, or loss it causes others.
A 1995 study of college students discovered that the inability of heavy marijuana users to focus, sustain attention, and organize data persists for as long as 24 hours after their last use of the drug.
www.pppdesign.net /otw/awareness.htm   (822 words)

  
 Wall Drug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In Wall, where the drugstore was for sale, we found both a small town and a Catholic church.
And when we talked to the priest, the doctor and the banker, they all told us that Wall was a good place with good people and that they wanted us to come live there.
Dorothy and I were excited about Wall, but when we got back home and told our families about the plan, we found them skeptical.
www.walldrug.com /history.htm   (1376 words)

  
 Wall Badlands Area Chamber of Commerce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Stories, photos, and family history from Wall's past and present residents may be submitted to be included in the Wall Centennial Book.
Our prairie town is home to the famous Wall Drug, which is known across the world for its free ice water.
In addition to these well-known features, Wall has endless entertainment opportunities for old and young alike.
www.wall-badlands.com /home.asp   (238 words)

  
 Wall Drug - Wall - Reviews of Wall Drug - TripAdvisor
Wall Drug is okay if you're REALLY bored or hungry, or love to shop for tacky overpriced knickknacks.
We arrived in Wall, South Dakota, on July 9, 2005...the outside temperature was 106 degrees.
I worked at Wall Drug in the early 90's as a college student.
www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g54848-d145078-Reviews-Wall_Drug-Wall_South_Dakota.html   (938 words)

  
 US Border Patrol The Wall
This part of The Wall is made of surplus steel and is eight feet high.
It was discovered that illegal aliens and drug smugglers would crash even ten cars through the fence at one time and force a clear path.
Along The Wall itself -- in what the Mexicans call "La tierra de nadie" or "no man's land" -- and within sight of San Diego's skyline and civilization, the crime is wanton and unchecked.
www.usborderpatrol.com /borderframe1301.htm   (4083 words)

  
 Wall Tourist Traps - Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
On one level Wall Drug in the tiny town of Wall, SD, on the edge of Badlands National Park is a tourist trap, what with its Six Foot Rabbit (actually a stuffed burro), the tacky Cowboy Orchestra and Chuck Wagon Quartet (glassed-in tableaux with animated, life-size statues)..
But Wall Drug is a first-rate place to buy Western wear (Levi's, authentic cowboy hats, boots, and moccasins) and has the best prices for that sort of thing in the region.
Wall Drugs is a drugstore made into a mall.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/South_Dakota/Wall-869257/Tourist_Traps-Wall-BR-1.html   (395 words)

  
 South Dakota: Wall Drug
By the 1960s, Wall Drug touted its free ice water on 3,000 billboards in all 50 states.
Originally, not much; in 1952, South Dakota's WPA Guide described Wall Drug as "one of the most advertised attractions in the State and, for many, one of the biggest disappointments." No longer.
Graves of Wall Drug founders Ted and Dorothy Hustead, Wall Cemetery.
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 Find What You Need at South Dakota's Wall Drug Store - Associated Content
Wall Drug is a great stop for those tourist items and those unique gifts.
Wall Drug is a testament to American's persistance during the Depression era.
Wall Drug has millions of visitors a year, and they sell mounts of that elusive and almost mythical creature the Jackalope.
associatedcontent.com /article/9887/find_what_you_need_at_south_dako...   (499 words)

  
 Beans Around The World - Wall Drug - Wall, SD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Located in Western South Dakota, in beautiful downtown Wall, Wall Drug is a mecca for anyone who has ever made a cross-country trip.
I honestly believe that it is impossible to drive past Wall, SD without stopping at Wall Drug.
The beans were glad to be able to drop back into Wall Drug again; you really can't beat their fresh made donuts, especially after you've just spent the last 500 miles in the station wagon reading road signs about them.
www.beans-around-the-world.com /wall.html   (377 words)

  
 BillingsGazette.com :: As decades pass, Wall Drug keeps up the kitsch
Wall, population 800, is a dusty cow town at the geographic center of nowhere.
Welcome to Wall Drug, where you can spend an hour or a day among the wacky and whimsical.
In case you're wondering, the residents of Wall don't do their shopping at Wall Drug.
www.billingsgazette.net /articles/2006/11/19/news/state/30-wall-drug.txt   (1094 words)

  
 Drug Access | Wall Street Journal Examines Obstacles of Gilead's Program To Increase Access to ...
The company instead made the drug available through "import waivers," which require clinics and nongovernmental organizations to petition their governments for special permission to import the drug, allowing Gilead to ship it from the U.S., according to the
Another obstacle came when health authorities in many nations "balked" because the drug was not on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines, which is considered more useful than FDA approval by many nations, according to the
In addition, there are further delays because Gilead has produced an "export version" of the drug to prevent not-for-profit versions from being sold in major commercial markets.
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=38243   (493 words)

  
 Roadside Chic/Wall Drug
Come for the free water, stay for the weirdness.
Wall Drug is located off of exits 109 and 110 of Interstate 90 in Wall, SD near Badlands National Park.
You can pick your president (well you used to be able to anyway), and you can pick your nose, but at Wall Drug, you can pick your presidents nose.
www.happydeathinc.com /roadside/Pages/walldrug.htm   (93 words)

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