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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Work on New Theater
Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 1910, page 17
Under the direction of Contractor S. M. Meld, the excavation work for the new Lyceum theater began this afternoon. When completed the theater will be one of the prettiest in the city, and the proprietor, J. R. Nuckles, says that $5000 will be expended for its interior furnishings. It will be ready for occupancy by September 15.
