Pandemic Complicates Plans but Owner of Art’s Place Is Hopeful
When Winks on the Beach Road in Kitty Hawk closed two years ago, nobody knew what would happen next. The store, built in 1953, had been a part of beach life for over 65, and there was concern that a part of Outer Banks life would be lost forever. Kip Tabb, writing for the Outer Banks Voice interviewed Tammy Nichols, owner of Art’s Place and now Winks to get the story.
“The original Winks store on the corner of the Beach Road and Eckner Street in Kitty Hawk is on the comeback trail — although that journey, complicated by a pandemic, won’t be an easy one.
When the store closed in 2018, there were questions about what would happen to the building that had been so much a part of the history of the town. Tammy Nichols, the owner of Art’s Place next door to Winks, heard those concerns and knew she wanted to do something about it.”
