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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14-screen theater to open in Ogden
Deseret News, 2 March 1998, page D7
Article Summary:
On 27 March 1998, Cinemark opened what, at the time, was the largest movie theater in Utah in a single building. The 30,000-square-foot Tinseltown USA at Newgate Mall has 14 screens with almost 3,173 seats. The theaters range in size from 154 to 290. There will also be two separate concession areas and three different sets of rest rooms.
