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ITEM 8 · MIXED — THE ROOM TEST NEGATIVE FOR THIS GROUND; THE SUCCESSION DUG AT BOUNDARY SIZE
No stand-up comedy room — first, successor or standing — has been seated in Osceola at any date in any record reached: not in the Arts section's room tests (whose one standing live room in the town is a music stage, the stage at Mr G's, 708 Lincolnway West, carried in the Food leg as a band room and never billed as comedy in any record reached), not in the club-directory record for Indiana (five rooms in five cities, November 2026, none nearer than South Bend), and not in the town and county licensing record as reached. A village whose picture-goers and theater-goers always traveled traveled for stand-up too; the room test is the picture-show test forty years on, with the same answer.
The succession the checklist asks to trace therefore stands entire in the neighboring city, at boundary size, dated at the strength the record gives. South Bend's present standing room is The Drop Comedy Club, 435 S. Michigan Street — operating by September 2013 on the dated review record, owned and run by comics (in its present course by the comedian Heather Mae), with weekend shows and a free Tuesday open mic that remains the region's working room: the club directory's November 2026 entry gives Friday and Saturday shows and the Tuesday mic, five minutes a set, at that address. The first-generation room of the pattern — a dedicated 1980s-to-2000s stand-up room in the valley whose full course would precede The Drop — is neither documented nor excluded by the record reached; in the Granger running the same gap stands registered for the market, and it stands here identically, as the succession's missing first term.
GAP-OS88-4 — The market's first dedicated stand-up room. Settlers: the South Bend Tribune's entertainment listings, 1984–2012; national club-directory archives; city licensing records.
Sources: Arts and Food legs of this build (the room tests; Mr G's stage, 708 Lincolnway W). Disciples of Comedy, Indiana club directory (five rooms in five cities; The Drop Comedy Club, 435 S. Michigan St., South Bend — Tuesday open mic; read November 2026). The Drop's dated review record (operating by September 2013) and the club's own present account. Register row #593.