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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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.
