OK I can see that. There's only one Wall Drug.

by MattG, Thursday, March 12, 2026, 09:06 (138 days ago) @ BillyGoat

There are like a million Buc-ees, so I'm not sure why it would be a tourist attraction, it's just like any other big service station except they pay better and have somewhat better food.

It feels more to me like when people get really loyal to a brand in an almost ironic sense, like how people wore Sriracha or In-And-Out t-shirts around for a while?

Wall Drug, you can take a photo with a wooden statue of Annie Oakley where the face has degraded into a really macabre horror show. And you can buy name brand cowboy boots, almost as if you were in Allens in Austin. And you can buy a pork tenderloin sandwich and kinda walk around a somewhat old-west area.