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.
Menu
Cinemark theater comes to Orem mall
Provo Daily Herald, 5 September 2007, page A1
Article Summary:
A 16-screen Cinemark theater will be built as part of an outdoor expansion of University Mall called University Mall Village. The 20-acre retail center will add 71,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space and will include three major restaurants and 20 to 30 retailers. The 47,000-square-foot cinema will be located at 1000 South 750 East near the Mervyns Department store. Groundbreaking is scheduled for Fall 2007 with the opening in Fall 2008. University Mall is owned by Salt Lake City-based Woodbury Corp.
