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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S.L.'s Trolley Corners closes theater doors
It opened in 1977, was dollar house since September
Deseret News, 4 June 2004
Article Summary:
The Westates Theatres at Trolley Corners closed after the last movies on 3 June 2004. Trolley Corners was the last theater in the Salt Lake Valley equipped for traditional 70-millimeter films. Trolley Corners had one of the largest theaters in Utah, with 770 seats.
