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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$1 movies in Ogden are truly just a buck
Deseret News, 17 November 1998, page A11
Article Summary:
In October 1998, after the opening of the new 14-screen Cinemark
Tinseltown at Newgate Mall, Carmike Cinemas dropped admission prices at
the City Square Four theater from $6.25 for adults and $4.25 for
children to $1. Attendance at the theater was averaging 50 patrons on a
typical night, but after the change it jumped to over 200. At the time,
no other theater in the Wasatch Front offered a $1 admission.
