By Mary Clarkin
Hutchinson News – January 7, 2014
A Sunday fire destroyed a residence that was the original Dam Sandwich Shop near Kanopolis Lake.
No one was injured, but the property was not insured, according to homeowner Helen Weber. She’s the daughter of the couple, Carl and Isla Youngdahl, who opened the sandwich shop about 60 years ago.
Donations to help Weber can be sent to Marquette Farmers State Bank, P.O. Box 39, Marquette, KS 67464.
“It’s a total loss,” Weber said.
What remains near 29th Road and Riverside Drive in Ellsworth County are the concrete blocks placed when the structure was built in the early 1950s, she said.
The Dam Sandwich Shop business moved from the original location after a road was constructed across the top of the dam. The sandwich shop operated for a time – it since has ceased business – at the site where the Smoky Hill Trading Post currently operates.
The residence that burned “will be replaced, eventually,” Weber said.
Weber said she is staying with a grown daughter who recently underwent surgery. Weber said a companion is in a motel in Lindsborg in the wake of the fire.
The family said the cause of the fire was not determined. The News was unable to reach a spokesman for the Marquette firefighters.
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