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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Sanpete County Theater Carries Traditional Fun
Salt Lake Tribune, 18 January 2003
Article Summary:
The Lund family, which operates the Towne theater in Ephraim, built a twin screen theater on the outskirts of town in 1999.
Truxton Lund purchased the Basin Drive-In in Vernal in 1960 and moved it to Mount Pleasant, keeping the same name.
