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, 3 December 1908, page 5
F. J. Thomas was in Salt Lake City Monday buying roller skates for his new rink. The rink was thrown open to skaters this afternoon and tonight.
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An unusually large crowd was out to the Thanksgiving dance at the new hall of F. J. Thomas. Hereafter the dances given by the management are to be fifty cents a couple. The floor here is about the best ever.
