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Hey Tillies Bubble Gum Lunch Counter Tale
In West Frankfort at Su Kostis Grocery near Frankfort High, Tillie Sukos runs a daily lunch ritual for neighborhood kids. Since 1942 she serves 2 cent bologna and cheese sandwiches with bubble gum, recalling many daily visitors and her small profits but steady joy from counting hundreds of bubble gums to regulars.
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Butch Nevious
Tillie
Nan
Familler
Su Kosti
Grorery
West Frankfort
Frankfort