Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Wall Drug - Wall, South Dakota


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Sung had told us even before the trip of how he had heard about this place a long time ago. The basic idea is that this little drug store in the middle of South Dakota decided to advertise itself via highway billboard signs (the pioneer of the idea apparently). But they didn't just use one or two big ones...oh no...try more like hundreds...and apparently all over the world too. Anyway, so as we were within maybe 50 miles of the place, we started to see signs for the place pretty regularly. We even tried to take a picture of all of them, but sometimes, there were so many that we couldn't get them all.


IMG_0795.JPG, originally uploaded by IlliniJester.

Once we got there, the store turned out to be just as quirky as all the signs we saw. The store is huge now..and, judging by the old pictures, significantly large than the original. They had all the knick knack souvenir stuff. We ate lunch there too and had a pretty tasty buffalo burger...mmmm...

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