Adams Shakespearean Theatre
Cedar City, Utah
In the early 1960s, business owners worried that the proposed Interstate 15 would divert tourists from Cedar City as they travelled to Zions and Bryce Canyon national parks. Fred C. Adams, a professor at Southern Utah State College, thought a theater festival might encourage passing tourists to exit the new freeway. For its first season in 1962, the Utah Shakespeare Festival used a makeshift outdoor platform as a stage, with the audience seated in folding chairs on the lawn. In 1977, the festival built the Adams Shakespearean Theatre, a replica of the original Globe Theatre.
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Jitneys Are Taken out of Service
Ogden Standard Examiner, 12 April 1915, page 5
The Jitney Service company decided yesterday to take its regular five-cent fare buses out of service, believing that the bonds required under the new city ordinance made the service virtually prohibitive. The company had been running five cars on the mains streets of the city and would have had to furnish a bond of $25,000 in order to keep them in service.
The company has established a garage in the old Globe theatre building and will operate a special service to Ogden canyon and probably to some of the country districts.
