Visit USA: information about Walldrug
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Exits 109 & 110 off I-90 in Wall, SD near Badlands National Park
510 Main Street
Wall, SD 57790
1-605-279-2175
Wall Drug Store is located in the town of Wall, South Dakota which sits on the edge of the Badlands at “The Wall”, a rugged barrier of tinted spires, ridges and twisted gullies between two strips of undulating prairie.
It was December of 1931 that Dorothy and Ted Hustead bought the only drugstore in a little town called Wall. By the summer of 1936, the business had not grown much. Then, on a hot July Sunday, Dorothy came up with an idea. Realizing that all the cars going on route 16A through the hot dusty prairie would have thirsty folks inside, she proposed to put up a sign on the highway “Free ice water”. And the rest as they say, is history….