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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[Entertainment at Goff's Dramatic Hall]
Salt Lake Tribune, 26 February 1899, page 9
At Goff's Dramatic hall, West Jordan, on the evening of the 20th instant, an entertainment was given by the Lafayette Memorial committee. An audience of about 400 was present. Those who participated in the excellent programme were the East Jordan Choral society, William Cooper Jr., E. M. Mumford, U. E. Febr, Miss Flossie Cooper, J. E. Moss, Jospeh Hibbard, Henry Hanson, Jeddie Goff and Messrs. Lloyd, Abbot, Olson, Iverson and Stevenson.
