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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Area's Largest Movie Screen Opening
Deseret News, 5 November 1999, page E1
Article Summary:
The
Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons, entertainment and restaurant complex
built by Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller, opened on 5 November 1999
with 5,000 seats in 16 auditoriums. The 17th theater is the Super
Screen, which seats 456 and shows large-format 70mm films on a screen
60 feet high by 80 feet wide with a 15,000 watt, 6-track digital sound
system. The Super Screen is the largest in the Salt Lake area.
