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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Movies 8 to say goodbye to Provo as The Mix begins
Daily Herald, 22 February 2017
Article Summary:
When the Mix at Rivers Edge was announced in March 2016, plans for a total remake of the development included keeping the Cinemark Movies 8 dollar-house, which opened in 1988. Colby Durnin, CEO of Sentinel Development out of Orange County, California, said Cinemark opted last fall not to renew the lease. Some residents enterained having a petition asking for the theater to remain.