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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Pleasant Grove entertainment center is expanding by 18 holes
By John Best, Herald Correspondent
Daily Herald, 12 May 1999
Article Summary:
Jerry Smith, creator of The Water Gardens, plans to expand the development with a theme plan for food and entertainment. The Westates Water Gardens Cinema 6 has been a big success and the two-acre Water Gardens Miniature Golf Course, to be built at the northeast end of the development, is scheduled to open July 1. Smith says that several restaurants will come in the future.
