Neel’s and Andrew Zalumas

This corner was brightened for many years by the presence of a beloved citizen of Thomasville Andrew Zalumas. At the corner of N Broad and E Jackson in Thomasville, Ga. I think Neel’s was a department store. Who was Andrew Zalumas?

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