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 Owners Take over Theater
Times Independent, 21 May 1959, page 1
The Holiday Theater in Moab has been purchased by Jack Crowson, Jack McClusky and Gary Bond, from Michael Hunter, the new owners taking over the management Monday.
The new owners are also operators of the Hill Top Drive-In.
Gary Bond will manage both theaters. According to Mr. Bond, the three men are now making arrangements to incorporate and will call their new organization Moab Theaters, Inc.
Mr. Hunter plans to leave Moab to enter business in California, it was reported.
