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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Curtain Set to Fall on Davis Drive-In
Deseret News, 10 April 1991, page B4
Article Summary:
The Davis Drive-In opened for business in the spring of 1991, even
though the 41-year-old theater was up for sale. The theater sat on 23
acres of land and was owned by Tony Rudman of Westates Theaters, "who
is selling the site under the belief that it is worth more as prime
commerical property than as a drive-in." The theater could accommodate
800 to 900 cars for each of its two screen. If the drive-in didn't sell
in 1991, it might have opened for the 1992 season.
