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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Big Branch House for Beaver
Beaver City Press, 28 February 1913, page 1
Arrangements have been completed between John F. Jones of Beaver and Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company of Salt Lake City for the latter to install a Branch House in Beaver. These people have leased the Jones Hall and will put in a big stock of Hardware Implements and Machinery and the business will be owned and controlled by them. They have selected Mr. Ennes Jones as manager of the concern, and it is expected that they will do a big business to this line.