Uintah Theatre
Vernal, Utah
On 29 April 1912, the New Uintah Theatre opened in the former Elk Building, which had been remodeled “along the latest moving picture house lines, with sloping floor, soloists platform, etc.” The ticket office was outside, under a “blaze of rows of electric lights.” Patrons of nearby towns appreciated having hitching posts on the premises. The New Uintah closed sometime prior to 1932. The E. W. Davis furniture store occupied the building before it became a piano store called the Henderson-Barlett Music Company.
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Opera House Fire
Box Elder News, 1 June 1911
Fire started in the rubbish near the back stage door of the opera house early this morning and a host of citizens made a dash for the scene only to find that the blaze had been extinguished. Somebody had evidently thrown a lighted cigarette out of the door, which fell among the paper and ignited it. When the water was turned on the blaze, it had started to burn the corner of the step, so it was nipned just in time, and a disasterouse fire was averted.
