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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New Layton theaters take moviegoing to the next level
Deseret News, 4 June 1997, page B9
Article Summary:
Tinseltown USA opened just before Memorial Day in 1997 with 7 screens
and about 1600 seats. Features include "highback rocker seats, four-day
advance ticket sales, digital sound, a video arcade room, four large
concession areas and six box office stations." The largest auditoriums
seat 425, the medium size 260, and the smallest 135.
