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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Renovation starting at Valley Fair mall
Deseret News, 26 March 1986, page B7
A $5 million renovation project on Valley Fair shopping mall is under way, with site preparations for construction of a food court and expansion of the mall's movie theater complex.
Construction preparations began Monday, said Richard Flack, general manager of the 16-year-old shopping center owned by Winmar Company Inc.
The food court will provide space for 14 vendors of international cuisine and a 350-seat eating area.
Six new theaters will be added to the existing four theater movie complex, a Winmar spokesman said.
