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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Movie Mania in Layton: 36 Screens
Deseret News, 15 February 1995, page B3
Article Summary:
The Movies 6 theater opened at Layton Hills Mall in 1980. In 1990,
Cinemark built the Movies 10 theater next to Movies 6. In December
1994, Cinemark announced that it would demolish Movies 6 in order to
build a 16-screen theater in addition to Movies 10. About the same
time, Cineplex Odeon announced it would build a 10-screen theater in
the same area, which would have given a total of 36.