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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Utah County weighs art-center options
Herbert wants more input from cities about facility
Deseret News, 17 October 2000, page B3
Article Summary:
Utah County Commissioner Gary Herbert has been heading a cultural arts committee that discusses what can be done to create a single cultural arts center that can serve various communities. He believe progress is being made, but that such a facility is many years away.
Efforts are still under way by the Lehi Arts Council to build a cultural arts center at Thanksgiving Point, although the June 2000 groundbreaking has been rescheduled for Spring 2001.
