by Robin Furth
CLARK MOVIE THEATER: VII:682
DENBY’S DISCOUNT DRUG: This shop is located in Times Square. JAKE sits across the street from it during his search for a doorway into Mid-World. Denby is part of the pseudonym Jake gives to the policeman he mesmerizes with his magic key. III:169
GAIETY MOVIE THEATER: PERE CALLAHAN saw his first TYPE THREE VAMPIRE here. V:268–69, V:274
TOM AND JERRY’S ARTISTIC DELI: See LOT, THE, in PORTALS
TOOKER’S WHOLESALE TOYS: III:104 (exact location not mentioned)
TOWER OF POWER RECORDS: See SECOND AVENUE, listed above
TURTLE BAY: JAKE’s magic LOT is located in an area of Manhattan once known as Turtle Bay. Since the Turtle is one of the GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM, it seems that this area of New York—and the magical ROSE that lives here—is protected by the TURTLE. III:122, V:96, V:97, V:98, V:540, VI:91
SECOND AVENUE, EIGHT MAGIC BLOCKS: See SECOND AVENUE, listed above
TURTLE BAY LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS: The Turtle Bay Condos are a project planned by MILLS CONSTRUCTION AND SOMBRA REAL ESTATE, an evil company that has no interest in building housing. What they really want to do is own the magic LOT so that they can destroy the ROSE that grows there. III:121, III:264, IV:100, V:96
TURTLE BAY WASHATERIA: Just after visiting ROWAN MAGRUDER in RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL, CALLAHAN was attacked by the HITLER BROTHERS and dragged to this deserted laundromat, located on Forty-seventh Street, between SECOND and FIRST AVENUES. Luckily, CALVIN TOWER and AARON DEEPNEAU saved him from the disgusting duo. V:434–42, V:448, VI:198
TWEENITY (SHOP): III:166
TWIN TOWERS (WORLD TRADE CENTER): In the when of 1999, JAKE and CALLAHAN store BLACK THIRTEEN in a locker below the Twin Towers. III:350, V:321, VI:300 (double towers), VI:334–38, VII:147
UNITED NATIONS: III:124, V:266, VI:83, VI:85, VII:405
UNITED NATIONS PLAZA HOTEL: See FIRST AVENUE: PLAZA–PARK HYATT HOTEL, above
VACANT LOT: See LOT, THE, in PORTALS
WALL STREET: III:402
STOCK EXCHANGE: III:350
WORLD TRADE CENTER: See TWIN TOWERS, listed above
ZABAR’S: Zabar’s is a specialty food store. III:297, V:42
QUEENS: III:168, III:265, V:265, V:436, V:443, VII:807
JFK AIRPORT: In order to deliver his cocaine packages to the nefarious BALAZAR, EDDIE has to pass through CUSTOMS at JFK airport. He manages to do so, but only because of Roland’s intervention. (Please note: On the following pages, JFK is mentioned. I have also listed pages where Eddie’s plane is sitting on a JFK runway.) II:57, II:68, II:70–76, II:78–79, II:80, II:81, II:82–84, II:85–90, II:91, II:92, II:96–99, II:118–19, II:127, III:161, V:185, V:525, VI:226, VII:46, VII:119
CUSTOMS: The Customs officials found in The Drawing of the Three suspect that EDDIE DEAN is carrying drugs, so they search for them in rather personal places. Since the packages are on LOBSTROSITY BEACH, they can’t arrest him. (For Customs page references, see the listings under EDDIE DEAN, in CHARACTERS. For CUSTOMS located at Forty-third Street, see II:118, II:119, and II:127.)
LA GUARDIA AIRPORT: VI:226
REHAB CENTER: V:443
QUEENS MIDTOWN TUNNEL: V:525
RIKERS ISLAND: Rikers Island is the United States’s largest penal colony. There are ten jails on the island. Had EDDIE DEAN been caught carrying BALAZAR’s coke, he would have ended up at Rikers. II:112
TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE: The Triborough Bridge is a major New York City traffic artery. It connects MANHATTAN, Queens, and the BRONX. III:171, III:292
WESTCHESTER: II:345
MAMARONECK: VII:103
NEWARK
See NEW JERSEY (STATE OF)
NIAGARA FALLS
See NEW YORK (STATE OF)
NIAGARA MALL
See NEW YORK (STATE OF)
NORTH CONWAY
See NEW HAMPSHIRE (STATE OF)
NORTH WINDHAM
See MAINE (STATE OF): CUMBERLAND COUNTY
NORWAY
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY
NORWICH
See CONNECTICUT (STATE OF)
NOTIONS
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: NORWAY
NOTRE DAME
See FRANCE: PARIS
NUTLEY
See DRAWERS, in PORTALS
O
ODETTA
See ARKANSAS (STATE OF)
OHIO (STATE OF)
V:255, VI:336, VII:673
AKRON: In Akron, Ohio, in 1935, TED BRAUTIGAN became a murderer. As Ted stood on the corner of STOSSY AVENUE, a brown bag containing a pork chop in his hand, a mugger ran past, drove Ted face-first into a telephone pole, and stole his wallet from his pocket. Enraged, Ted threw a mind-spear at the man. He dropped dead. VII:277, VII:376, VII:657
STOSSY AVENUE: VII:277–78
DEFUNCT CANDY STORE: VII:277, VII:283
MR. DALE’S FANCY BUTCHER SHOP: Ted bought his pork chop here. He never ate it. VII:277
CLEVELAND: VI:336, VII:669, VII:673, VII:674, VII:676
JANGO’S NIGHT CLUB: JOE COLLINS (who is actually the were-insect DANDELO) tells Roland and SUSANNAH that he performed his comedy act in this club. VII:669, VII:673, VII:674
CUYAHOGA RIVER: VII:674
DAYTON: V:255
SPOFFORD: V:255
OKLAHOMA (STATE OF)
V:309
ENID: V:309
OLD FRYEBURG ROAD
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: ROUTE 7
OLE MISS
See MISSISSIPPI, UNIVERSITY OF
OMAHA
See NEBRASKA (STATE OF); see also ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD
OREGON (STATE OF)
V:305
FOSSIL: During his years traveling the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, PERE CALLAHAN passed through Fossil. V:305
ORONO
See MAINE (STATE OF): PENOBSCOT COUNTY
ORRINGTON
See MAINE (STATE OF): PENOBSCOT COUNTY
OXFORD, MAINE
See MAINE (STATE OF)
OXFORD TOWN
See MISSISSIPPI (STATE OF)
P
PACIFIC
VII:286
PAPUA
See NEW GUINEA
PARIS
See FRANCE
PARK ON SECOND AVE
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE
PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
See TEXAS: DALLAS
PECOS RIVER
VII:325
PENN STATION
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
PENNSYLVANIA (STATE OF)
PHILADELPHIA: Known to those who live there as Philly, this city figures prominently in a song JAKE CHAMBERS sings to scare away the GHOSTS IN THE MACHINES. It goes, “My girl’s a dilly/She comes from Philly.” III:336
PITTSBURGH: VII:668
WILKES-BARRE: VII:285
PENTAGON
See WASHINGTON, D.C.
PERTH OIL AND GAS
See NEW JERSEY (STATE OF)
PERU
II:371, V:561
PHILADELPHIA
See PENNSYLVANIA (STATE OF)
PIPER SCHOOL
This was JAKE CHAMBERS’s exclusive middle school, located on East Fifty-sixth Street, between Park and Madison Avenues, in MANHATTAN. It was Private and Nice and most of all, White. Jake hated it.
I:81, I:82, III:89–102, III:106, III:110, III:119, III:126, III:131 (indirect), III:134, III:135, III:136, III:156, III:183, III:225, III:358 (Jake calls it a “Cradle of the Pubes”), IV:30 (Piper and Blaine), IV:62, IV:626, V:51, V:52, V:502, V:669, V:689, VI:40, VII:85, VII:332, VII:395
PITTSBURGH
See PENNSYLVANIA
PLAZA HOTEL
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: FIFTH AVENUE
PLAZA–PARK HYATT
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: FIRST AVENUE
POCKET PARK
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE
POLAND
AUSCHWITZ: A Nazi concentration
camp located near the town of Auschwitz. VII:698
PORTALS
See entry in PORTALS
PORT AUTHORITY
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
PORTLAND
See MAINE (STATE OF): CUMBERLAND COUNTY
PUSHING PLACE
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
Q
QUEENS
See NEW YORK CITY
QUINCON
II:58
R
RAHWAY
See NEW JERSEY (STATE OF)
RAYMOND
See MAINE (STATE OF): CUMBERLAND COUNTY
RED WINDMILL, THE
See DRAWERS, in PORTALS
REFLECTIONS OF YOU
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
REINISCH ROSE GARDEN
See KANSAS (STATE OF)
RHODESIA
V:179
RIDGELINE ROAD
See DRAWERS, in PORTALS
RIKERS ISLAND
See NEW YORK CITY
RINCON AVENUE
See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN
RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
ROCKET ROAD
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: EAST STONEHAM
ROCKY MOUNTAINS (ROCKIES)
The Rocky Mountains stretch from the U.S. border with Mexico to the Yukon Territory in northern Canada. Their peaks form the backbone of the Continental Divide, separating the Great Plains from the Pacific Coast. This range also separates the rivers which flow eastward into the Atlantic from those which flow westward into the Pacific. JAKE thinks that the mountains beyond THUNDERCLAP must look like the Rocky Mountains. In actuality, the peaks of the DISCORDIA resemble the WHITE MOUNTAINS of MAINE and NEW HAMPSHIRE.
V:149
ROUTE 5
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY
ROUTE 7
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY
ROUTE 88
See DRAWERS, in PORTALS
RUSSIA
III:31, VI:274, VII:290, VII:598
S
SACRAMENTO
See CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)
SAINT ANDREW’S CHURCH
See MAINE (STATE OF): ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS AND THE STATE OF MAINE: JERUSALEM’S LOT
’SALEM’S LOT
See MAINE (STATE OF): ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS AND THE STATE OF MAINE: JERUSALEM’S LOT
SAN BERDOO
See CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)
SAN FRANCISCO
See CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)
SANTA FE
See MEJIS, BARONY OF: SANTA FE, in MID-WORLD PLACES; see also NEW MEXICO and ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD, above
SAPPORO
See JAPAN
SCANDINAVIA
VI:84–85
SEATTLE
See WASHINGTON (STATE OF)
SEBAGO LAKE
See MAINE (STATE OF): CUMBERLAND COUNTY: RAYMOND
SECOND AVENUE PARK
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE: EIGHT MAGIC BLOCKS: FORTY-SIXTH STREET: POCKET PARK
SHADY GROVE
See MISSISSIPPI (STATE OF)
SILENT WOMAN, THE
See MAINE (STATE OF): KENNEBEC COUNTY: WATERVILLE
SLAB CITY HILL
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: LOVELL
SLEEPY JOHN’S
See CALIFORNIA (STATE OF): SACRAMENTO
SMILER’S MARKET
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
SOMBRA REAL ESTATE
See SOMBRA CORPORATION, in CHARACTERS
SOUTH AMERICA
The SOUTH AMERICAN SEABEES were a group of North American engineers, construction workers, and roughnecks hired to work in South America for a group of South American businessmen.
VII:284
SOUTH CAROLINA (STATE OF)
V:232
SOUTH DAKOTA (STATE OF)
V:262
HOT BURGOO: After the bloody Eucharist served to him by BARLOW the VAMPIRE in ’SALEM’S LOT, MAINE, FATHER CALLAHAN was so desperate to leave town that he claims he would even have fled to Hot Burgoo, if he could have hopped on a bus heading in that direction. I don’t know whether this place exists, but I can define burgoo for you. A burgoo is a hot soup made from chicken, beef, and vegetables. It is cooked for several hours so that the flavors blend and the consistency becomes stew-like. According to the burgoo Web site (yes, there is one), burgoo was probably originally just a thin gruel served by sailors in the seventeenth century. Early burgoos probably also included such tantalizing ingredients as squirrel. V:262
SOUTH PARIS
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY
SPAIN
“The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” This rhyme is heard in both our world and MID-WORLD, although Mid-World’s version is quite a bit longer.
I:71, I:73
COSTA DEL SOL: The Costa del Sol is a resort region located on southern Spain’s Mediterranean coast. At the beginning of Wolves of the Calla, JAKE CHAMBERS believes that MOSES CARVER (SUSANNAH DEAN’s godfather) probably funneled all of Susannah’s HOLMES DENTAL INDUSTRIES fortune into his own accounts and moved to the Costa del Sol. (After all, that’s the kind of thing that happens in mystery novels.) However, as we learn in the final book of the Dark Tower series, Pop Mose did no such thing. V:102
STATION SHOES AND BOOTS
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE
STONEHAM
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY
STONEHAM FIRE AND RESCUE
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: EAST STONEHAM
STONEHENGE
See ENGLAND
STOSSY AVENUE
See OHIO (STATE OF): AKRON
STOWE
See VERMONT (STATE OF)
SUNNYVALE SANITARIUM
This is where we will probably all end up one day. JAKE has an especial fear of it.
III:91, III:92, III:93, III:99
SUNSET COTTAGE
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: EAST STONEHAM: CULLUM’S CABIN
SWEDEN (TOWN OF)
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY
SWEDEN
III:100, VI:85, VI:88
SWITZERLAND
VI:213
T
TANGIERS
See MOROCCO
TENNESSEE (STATE OF)
MEMPHIS: VII:78
TEXAS (STATE OF)
The band ZZ Top was originally from Texas.
II:396, III:254, V:31, V:305, VII:697
DALLAS: V:468
PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: While being driven through Dallas, Texas, in an open car in November of 1963, President JOHN F. KENNEDY was shot by an assassin. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, but could not be saved. Two days later, the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot at point-blank range by Jack Ruby. In the vivid dream which SUSANNAH DEAN experiences while locked inside the body she shares with MIA, Susannah hears Walter Cronkite announce the president’s death. VI:219
LUFKIN: V:305
THERMOPYLAE
The pass of Thermopylae is located in Greece; it leads between mountains and the sea. Although much wider now, in ancient times it was (at its narrowest) only twenty-five feet across. In 480 BC, the pass of Thermopylae was the site of a famous confrontation between the Greeks and the Persians. Although they were vastly outnumbered, the Greek defenders held the pass against a huge army of invaders. Eventually, all the Greeks were betrayed and killed, but their stand was heroic. JAKE’s DIXIE PIG battle strategy is based on the Greek plan used at Thermopylae. Luckily, Jake doesn’t die.
VII:85, VII:86, VII:110
TIMES SQUARE
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
TISHMAN BUILDING
See MICHIGAN (STATE OF): DETROIT
TOM AND JERRY’S ARTISTIC DELI
See LOT, THE, in PORTALS
TOOKER’S WHOLESALE TOYS
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
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br /> TOPEKA
See KANSAS (STATE OF); see also ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD
TOWER OF POWER RECORDS
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE
TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE
See NEW YORK CITY
TURTLE BAY, MANHATTAN
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
TURTLE BAY CONDOMINIUMS
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
TURTLE BAY WASHATERIA
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
TURTLEBACK LANE
See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: LOVELL
TWIN TOWERS
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
U
UNITED NATIONS
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN
UNITED NATIONS PLAZA–PARK HYATT
See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: FIRST AVENUE
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS (U.S. CUSTOMS)
See NEW YORK CITY: QUEENS
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT ORONO
See MAINE, UNIVERSITY OF
USSR
III:287
UTAH (STATE OF)
V:305
V
VACANT LOT
See LOT, THE, in PORTALS
VANDERBILT COLLEGE
JOHN CULLUM’s friend DON RUSSERT was a history professor at Vanderbilt College before he retired and moved to WATERFORD, MAINE.
VI:151, VI:152, VI:180
VASSAR COLLEGE
JUSTINE ANDERSON and ELVIRA TOOTHAKER, the two women who see BRYAN SMITH careering along ROUTE 7 in LOVELL, MAINE, met at Vassar College.
VII:439–40
VERMONT (STATE OF)
JOHN CULLUM once worked at the MAINE STATE PRISON with a man who later moved to Vermont. When Roland states that it is no longer safe for Cullum to stay in EAST STONEHAM, MAINE (after all, he helped our tet battle BALAZAR’S MEN, and those folks aren’t exactly forgiving), John says that he will go visit his friend and former coworker. Not surprisingly, Cullum never makes it across the state border. Instead, he helps EDDIE and Roland find CARA LAUGHS, a magical DOORWAY BETWEEN WORLDS. Roland calls the state of Vermont “Vermong.”
V:308, VI:181, VI:182, VI:211, VII:38 (Vermong), VII:39, VII:41, VII:45, VII:47, VII:128
MONTPELIER: VII:46
