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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Family Center Cinemas Becomes 'Dollar Theater'
Deseret News, 15 April 1990, page E10
Article Summary:
The Cineplex Odeon Family Center Trolley, located at 1122 E. Fort Union Blvd., was converted to a "sub-run" or "dollar house" this week, with admission prices of $1 per person. The first discount features include "Look Who's Talking," "The Little Mermaid," "Men Don't Leave" and a double feature of "Steel Magnolias" and "The War of the Roses."
