Orpheus Hall
Vernal, Utah
C. W. Showalter, and Andrew King opened the Orpheus Hall on Thanksgiving Day, 30 November 1911. The amusement hall had a spring dance floor, but was also used for roller skating, basketball, banquets, and movies. It was named after the Greek god of Mirth, “a famous musician who is reputed to have had power to entrance men, beasts, and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.” At 11:00 PM on New Years Eve, 1928, the hall was renamed Imperial Hall. In a ceremony on 20 April 1965, Governor Governor Calvin L. Rampton took a sledge hammer and delivered the first blow in the demolition of the hall as part of a community beautification campaign.
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Ogden Standard Examiner, 16 November 1903, page 6
The Sunday concerts given at this cozy place of amusement yesterday afternoon and evening were more than a success. The Ogden Mandolin club was very entertaining, also the new series of moving pictures and illustrated songs. This week there will be an entire change of programme, beginning today at 3:30 p. m., when the Great Hoevet will introduce his wonderful electric musical specialty.