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, 9 November 1911, page 5
The Eastern Utah Realty company has begun work on the north side of the Main street on a one-story brick building, thirty feet frontage by ninety feet in depth, that is to be occupied when completed by the Isis theater. The theater people are to have, they say, about the very finest thing in this part of the country when they become established in the new place.
