Conaway: Katz and rats, dads and doughnuts
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
A funky triangle bounded by Park, Lamar and Airways would be the first shopping center where things would start to change, where black and white Memphis would mix and mingle, where Memphis would start to look like Memphis.
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