Monday, September 04, 2017

Summer Vacation Redux #16: Wall Drugs

Finished my visit to the Badlands National Park in mid-afternoon, it was time to return to the interstate and head west to Wyoming.  However, the juncture happened to be at Wall, South Dakota.  One thing that everyone who drives interstate 90 in South Dakota knows is that Wall is home to one of the greatest tourist traps in the United States: Wall Drugs.  I can only think of one that might rival it--"South of the Border" on route 301 in Hamer, South Carolina.  My friend needed a necessary-break, and so it was simply a no-brainer that we experience Wall Drug for ourselves.


The complex is both wide and deep and features a mall like range of shops through kitsch infested narrow passageways.  You just know that if something ever caught fire--well, it would not be pretty...  There are multiple jewelry stores, a bookstore, at least two pharmacy (that made no sense!), ice cream shops, candy stores, art galleries, gun store, restaurants...  The entire labyrinth of commerce is disturbing and compelling on so many levels.  I'm glad we didn't choose to spend very long there.


 Would like to sit and take a picture with Annie Oakley?
 I prefer my Bison alive!


 There is an actual, original, functioning pharmacy here, too.
It's all about the non-sequitur!
For all your jack-elope needs, as if!

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