Conaway: ‘Opportunity doesn’t exist if you can’t get to it’
MyCityRides Executive Director Andy Nix (in a Sept. 29, 2020 photo) talks about the nonprofit’s Summer Avenue facility. The nonprofit company sells motor scooters at cost to help solve transportation problems for many low-wage, working Memphians. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
MyCityRides is open, exactly where it should be, on Summer between Highland and Tillman, on quite possibly the most Memphis of streets. There are things and vibes on Summer that aren’t anywhere else.
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