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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Eastern Utah Advocate, 23 November 1911, page 5
The Liberty theater is showing to good crowds nightly with a change of program on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The Liberty is a good place to spend an evening. All the comforts of home.
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Miller & Green this week moved to Rogers building on Main street, formerly occupied by the Isis theater. They will run a pool and billiard parlor, with soft drinks, cigars and a short order lunch counter. H. S. Doxey is in charge of the lunch counter.
