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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Burrows Auto Co Makes a Move
Ogden Standard Examiner, 16 September 1916, page 9
The Burrows Auto company has moved into the new garage on Twenty-fifth street, recently constructed in the old Globe theatre building, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets. The company moved to the new place from Grant avenue and in the course of a short time will have a large supply of Chalmers and Haynes cars. A number of the cars are already on hand, but more will be forthcoming. The new quarters are large enough to enable the company to attend to its business advantageously.
