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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Alhambra Theater Building Permit
Ogden Standard Examiner, 4 August 1914, page 7
Only four days of August have passed and building permits which have been taken out at the city engineer's office has reached a sum over $100,000.
Today Contractor W. A. Larkins took out a permit for the construction of the Alhambra theater building, giving the cost as $100,000.
Margaret Murray is building a residence on Quincy avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets at a cost of $2500.
On Jefferson avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets, John C. Carr is building a residence that will cost in the neighborhood of $2300.
