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During the Depression, in 1931, Ted Hustead, a young pharmacist, his wife Dorothy and son Billy moved into the back of a small drug store in Wall, South Dakota, a town of 800 people. After a year they realized they could not stay in business because people in Western South Dakota were on hard time's In desperation Dorothy suggested they advertise free ice water to attract the traveling public. This idea saved the drug store. Because of the Husteads tenacity. Wall Drug Store slowly grew to be one of the largest drug stores in the world. |
