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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Garfield County News, 9 October 1914, page 4
The prize given last week at Social Hall Theatre at the baby show was first of $10 to the baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Evans and the second prize of $5 went to the baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daly. They were both beautiful babies.
