Karl Cabin Fire: What led to the three-alarm fire at Karl’s Cabin Restaurant & Banquets near Plymouth.
Overnight, a fire did a lot of damage to one of Michigan’s most famous log cabins and a restaurant that has been there for a long time.
Late Wednesday night, there was a three-alarm fire at Karl’s Cabin Restaurant & Banquets near Plymouth. Fire departments from all over the area were called to help. The Ann Arbor Fire Department says that the building was hurt by fire, smoke, and water. The department said that a “significant part” of the building is still there.
Karl’s Cabin has been in business for 41 years. It first opened in 1982 as a family restaurant that served homemade comfort food. It has been a place for people to get together since 1947, when it opened as a place for people to stay when they came back from the war.
It was first called a roadhouse. It was built on the corner of a 220 acre farm in Salem Township. There were different kinds of entertainment and food for sale, as well as a small apartment on the second floor.
In 1956, Johnny Cash was one of the people who played there. It became known as the Rustic Tavern, where fights often broke out, as time went on. It had been a restaurant twice before Karl Poulos found it in 1981. He and his wife then ran it as a restaurant.