Sanford: Looks aside, good food and great people made CK’s Coffee Shop special
CK’s Coffee Shop at 1698 Poplar Ave. in Midtown closed last July. The building was demolished Tuesday, June 13 to make way for a Scooter’s Drive-Thru Coffee Shop. (Courtesy Jamie Harmon)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
“My love of CK’s was about the people, the regulars, who showed up like clockwork every morning and became an informal coffee klatch to talk sports — mainly pro football — and politics, or to share the latest gossip.”
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