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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Handicapped Enjoy Special Film Show
Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 1967, page B1
Happiness was expressed 1,000 times Tuesday at a special showing of the Cinerama production, "Grand Prix," at the Villa Theatre, 3092 Highland Dr.
Some 1,000 handicapped and shut-in youngsters and adults were guests of The Salt Lake Tribune and the Villa For the second consecutive day. Monday, 1,000 persons also attended the movie.
The honored movie-goers came from Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo and American Fork hospitals, nursing homes and day-care centers in buses and cars for the annual outing.