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The unnamed houses, counted as a counted gap

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1925

The census year is 1925, the Tivoli's opening year, and the nomination that documents the Tivoli also counts the rooms it does not name. In 1925, the nomination records, Mishawaka had approximately five other vaudeville and picture theaters in operation besides the Tivoli, and nearby South Bend had another six. Set the named roll of the preceding article against those counts and the gap takes a number: of Mishawaka's roughly six houses of 1925, the record reached names three — Century (600), Temple (500), Tivoli (1,500) — leaving some three Mishawaka houses of the census year counted but unnamed in any source reached: no name, no address, no capacity survives for them in the nomination, in Cinema Treasures' Mishawaka roll, or in the directory record as reached. The CDP's contribution to the 1925 census is exact and requires no settler: zero houses, named or unnamed.

From the Tivoli Theater National Register nomination (the 1925 counts: some five other houses in Mishawaka, six in South Bend) and the Colfax nomination (some nine South Bend palaces); Cinema Treasures' Mishawaka roll, searched November 2026.

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Source: The unnamed houses, counted as a counted gap, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/theaters/unnamed-houses-counted-as-a-counted-gap/