Collierville gift shop keeps it in the family
Watty Brooks Hall hugs a longtime customer Dec. 20 inside the Brooks Collection in Collierville. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
As tenants come and go on the Collierville Town Square, the name Brooks has been constant.
For years Brooks Pharmacy operated on the square. Now Watty Brooks Hall, 68, runs The Brooks Collection at 110 E. Mulberry St., offering curated decor, jewelry and gifts.
Hall had always thought it would be fun to run a shop on the square, and when Patricia Ashworth moved her antique store a few doors east in the late 1990s, the space at 110 E. Mulberry St. — which had been in the Brooks family for at least two decades at the time — became open. Her father, former Alderman and Vice Mayor Tom Brooks, owned the building and knew Hall was interested.
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Abigail Warren
Abigail Warren is an award-winning reporter and covers Collierville and Germantown for The Daily Memphian. She was raised in the Memphis suburbs, attended Westminster Academy and studied journalism at the University of Memphis. She has been with The Daily Memphian since 2018.
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