Banshew fork in the roadmovie poster6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() They noticed the water pitchers on the bar in one frame and then gone in the next frame. They went inside and watched a security video to see what had happened. While sitting on patio after hours, a few employees heard a crash in the bar.Employees would hear hanging glasses rattle on the glass rack and sometimes glasses would “fly” off the rack and crash on the floor.Register opened after bartender walked away. Cash register door opened on its own moments after the bartender punched in an order on the touch screen but walked away before completing the order.Lights flicker on and off in Dining Room and Bar Area.(sources: March 23, 2015 (Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service) Journal sentinel Maby Tracy Ouellette A Chronicle of Mukwonago History / 2001 Historical Architectural Resources Survey) Reported Activity Bar Area In September of 2017, two local residents of the Mukwonago area, Paul and Therese Hennessy, purchased the Fork in the Road from Dennis Stevens and currently operate the bar/restaurant. Three other tenants escaped the building after attmempting to get Julie out of her apartment. Tragically, Julie McKenzie, 39, was found dead in the apartment bathroom after the fire was extinguished. Image from: Original Dillenbeck Houseįive years later, on March 23 rd at approximately 1:20 am, authorites were called to another fire that broke out in an upstairs apartment. The restaurant/bar would eventually reopen again. The fire was mostly limited to the kitchen but water damage was throughout many sections of the building. On Maaround 10:41 pm, a grill line in a cooler unit caught fire in the kitchen. Dennis renamed the the bar/restaurant to what it is called today. Bob an Kitty operated the bar/restaurant until September of 2002 when they sold it to Dennis Stevens. In 1991, Bob and Kitty Kokott purchased the restaurant and bar business and renamed it Inn the Olden Days. Eventually, Roger would come to own the entire building. Vista Gardens, including the building, would eventually be sold to Mike Anich.įrom 1984 to 1991, Vista Gardens, the bar and restaurant, would be owned and operated by Howard Anich and Roger Walsh. In 1938, Vista Gardens was sold to Joe Anich and the theater was sold to another investor which eventually closes some time later. Vista Theater and Vista Gardens for the hotel and restaurant portion of the building and operated as such for several years. The newly built hotel/restaurant/theater took on two names. Over the next two years, the hotel would be built by brick and reopened in 1929 as a larger show house. The fire started when confetti from the previous night’s new year’s eve party caught fire in the heat registers. In 1920, John’s son Paul took over and operated the original hotel/theater until a fire consumed the building on January 1 st of 1927. The hotel was the first to show movies, by way of latern slides and a piano, in the Mukwonago area. Part of the hotel was turned into an amusement hall and included a stage. Under the new owner, John Nowatske, the hotel undertook some renovations along with a new name Park Hotel Theater. Gilbert owned and operated the hotel until November of 1912. The hotel had an addition put on in 1893. The structure featured 40 rooms, a bell tower, an ice house, shops, offices, a reading room, a billiard room, a first class livery, horse stables, and a 2 acre park. Built in 1885 by Gilbet M Dillenbeck, a blacksmith from New York, the restaurant called Fork in the Road was once a hotel named the Dillenbeck House. ![]()
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