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ウォール・ドラッグストア
Wall Drug Store
ウォール・ドラッグ正面
店舗概要
所在地 57790(zipコード)
アメリカ合衆国サウスダコタ州ペニントン郡
開業日 1931年12月
正式名称 ウォール・ドラッグストア
営業時間 7:00~17:30(日曜日 7:00~15:30)
最寄IC 州間高速道路90号線109,110番出口
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ウォール・ドラッグの位置(サウスダコタ州内)
ウォール・ドラッグ
ウォール・ドラッグ
サウスダコタ州内の位置

ウォール・ドラッグストア(Wall Drug Store)、通称ウォール・ドラッグはアメリカ合衆国サウスダコタ州ペニントン郡に立地する観光地ショッピングモールである。 ショピングモールにはドラッグストアギフトショップレストランを含め、さまざまな店舗でにぎわっている。これまでの伝統的なショピングモールとは異なり、すべてのウォール・ドラッグにある店舗は、個別に経営される店舗ではなく、一つの店舗として単一企業のもとに経営されている。ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙は「一年間に1000万ドルと200万人の観光客をへんぴな町に呼び込む、国際的に有名な無秩序に拡大した観光客向けのアトラクション」と描写した。[1]

歴史[編集]

1931年にテッドとドロシーのHustead一家がウォール町にあるたった一軒のドラッグストアを購入し、創業した。テッドはネブラスカ生まれで彼の事業を興すためにカトリック教会がある小さな町を探していた薬剤師だった。彼はいわゆるド田舎(the middle of nowhere)といわれる呼ばれる人口326人の貧しい町にあるウォール・ドラッグを購入し、生活できるよう努めた。「神に見捨てられた町」での事業の進展はとても遅かった。Business was very slow until his wife, Dorothy, got the idea to advertise free ice water to parched travelers heading to the newly-opened Mount Rushmore monument 60マイル (97 km) to the west. From that time on business was brisk. Wall Drug grew into a cowboy-themed shopping mall/department store. Wall Drug includes a western art museum, a chapel based on the one found at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa, and an 80-フート (24 m) Apatosaurus that can be seen right off Interstate 90. It was designed by Emmet Sullivan who also created the dinosaurs at Dinosaur Park and Dinosaur World.

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Wall Drug earns much of its fame from its self-promotion. Billboards advertising the establishment can be seen for hundreds of miles throughout South Dakota and the neighboring states. In addition, many visitors of Wall Drug have erected signs throughout the world announcing the miles to Wall Drug from famous locations, treating it as a geodesic datum. By 1981 Wall Drug was claiming it was giving away 20,000 cups of water per day during the peak tourist season, lasting from Memorial Day until Labor Day, and during the hottest days of the summer.

Wall Drug has over 500マイル (800 km) of billboards on Interstate 90, stretching from Minnesota to Billings, Montana. Wall Drug spends an estimated $400,000 on billboards every year.

現在のウォール・ドラッグ[編集]

The Wall Drug Dinosaur

To date, Wall Drug still offers free ice water, but as they have become more popular, they have started to offer free bumper stickers and signs to aid in promotion, and coffee for 5 cents. Some popular free bumper stickers read "Where the heck is Wall Drug?", "How many miles to Wall Drug?", and "Where in the world is Wall Drug?".

Back when the U.S. Air Force was still operating Minuteman Missile silos in the Western South Dakota plains, Wall Drug used to offer free coffee and donuts to service personnel if they stopped in on their way to/from Ellsworth AFB (50マイル (80 km) west on Interstate 90). Wall Drug continues to offer free coffee and a donut to honeymooners, veterans, priests, hunters, truck drivers, and other travelers.

Ted Hustead died in 1999. The following day, the governor of South Dakota began his annual State of the State address by commemorating Hustead as "a guy that figured out that free ice water could turn you into a phenomenal success in the middle of a semi-arid desert way out in the middle of someplace."[1]

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In 1981, Wall Drug was featured in Time magazine as one of the largest tourist attractions in the north.[2] In his 1989 book The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson wrote, "It's an awful place, one of the world's worst tourist traps, but I loved it and I won't have a word said against it."[3] The history of Wall Drug was told in a two episode story arc of the podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd.

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