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Roxy Theatre
106 South Main Street
Brigham City, Utah
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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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Roxy Theatre Photos
"Front
facade is the best example of Art Deco style in Brigham City. .
. Strong vertical features in upper front facade include
lighting fixtures and three vertical rows of small windows. Lower
facade is ceramic tile (yellow with green and blue trim); upper
facade is painted light green. Most remarkable feature is "Roxy" marquee."*
Photo by John Enlow, 6 November 1980, Library
of Congress
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"Auditorium is about
100 feet deep and 50 feet wide, with shallow stage at west end.
Stage is flanked
by doors on either side exiting to parking lot. . . many
seats broken and missing, screen torn and unusable, carpet and
flooring badly worn."*
Photo by John Enlow, 6 November 1980, Library
of Congress
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"In 1936, the theatre underwent a change
of management. The
new operators brought the "Roxy" marquee down from Logan
and renamed the theatre accordingly. Another major remodeling
took place in 1949. Most of the Art Deco facade was added at
this time."*
Photo by John Enlow, 6 November 1980, Library of
Congress
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The southern half of the Roxy Theatre
site was originally occupied by Rosenbaum Hall. In 1904 a
brick addition was added on the north. In 1930 a 25-foot
addition was added in back and a single roof was installed over
the whole structure. In
1932, the walls separating the Rosenbaum Hall from the additions
was removed and the New Grand theater opened.
Photo by John Enlow, 6 November 1980, Library of
Congress
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Main Street in Brigham City in
1980. The Roxy Theatre is the second-to-last building on
the right. Next to the theater on the right is the Comptons
building and on the left is a two-story fruit packing plant that
was built in 1904 as part of the Fishburn dry goods store.
Photo by John Enlow, 6 November 1980, Library of
Congress
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