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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Insurance Figures as Received
Davis County Clipper, 5 March 1909, page 1
Mr. Rampton is quoted in a paper as having said that our insurance figures as given in connection with the account of the opera house fire last week were incorrect. All we have to say is, that we got the figures direct from him and we are positive that we understood him correctly and that they were printed as he told us.