Dakota Drug of Stanley

Working pharmacy, gift-and-toy retailer and old-fashioned soda fountain with an operating Whirl-a-Whip machine.

An everyday pharmacy visit can turn into gift shopping and a made-to-order stop at a rare working ice-cream machine inside the same Main Street business.

Dakota Drug of Stanley is an active independent pharmacy on Stanley's Main Street with gifts, toys and other changing general merchandise beyond the prescription counter. Its defining internal feature is the old-fashioned soda fountain, where staff still operate a Whirl-a-Whip machine to blend ice cream with customers' selected mix-ins. North Dakota Tourism describes that machine as the only surviving Whirl-a-Whip still in use; OddStopsUSA keeps that distinction attributed rather than presenting it as an independently proven world record. The fountain remains part of Dakota Drug rather than a separate restaurant profile.