The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic Fantasy (52 page)

Hospital where Lupe Delgado dies from AIDS.

N
EW
Y
ORK
P
UBLIC
L
IBRARY
(5)

Located at 455 Fifth Avenue. Father Callahan uses the reference section to look up the zip code Aaron Deepneau left for him at the vacant lot and he steals the book
Yankee Highways
on a second visit. Bango Skank wrote his name in a men's room bathroom stall.

O
DETTA
, A
RKANSAS
(2)

Birthplace of Odetta Holmes's mother.

O
XFORD
, M
ISSISSIPPI
(2, 3, 5, 6, 7)

Odetta Holmes was jailed here in the summer of 1964 while protesting after three voter registration workers disappeared. She sometimes refers to it as Oxford Town.

O
Z
(3, 4, 4.5, 5, 6, 7)

Mythical land from the books of L. Frank Baum. Eddie calls Roland the Eagle Scout of Oz. Eddie and Susannah promise to tell Roland the story of
The Wizard of Oz
, which they do after they find red shoes on I-70 as they approach the Emerald Palace.

P
APER
P
ATCH
, T
HE
(3)

A stationery store at the intersection of Second Avenue and 46th Street. It has a window display of pens, notebooks and desk calculators.

409 P
ARK
A
VENUE
S
OUTH
(2)

Jack Mort's apartment. Roland supplied this address when talking to the police officers outside Clements Guns and Sporting Goods.

P
IPER
S
CHOOL
(1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, M)

The private school located on 56th Street between Park and Madison that Jake Chambers attends. According to his father, it is the best damned school in the country for a boy his age. It has seventy boys and fifty girls and boasts the highest student/teacher ratio of any fine private school in the east. Annual tuition is $22,000.

P
LAZA
H
OTEL
(5)

Fifth Avenue at Central Park South. Lupe Delgado worked on the maintenance crew.

P
LAZA
-P
ARK
H
YATT

See United Nations Plaza Hotel.

P
OCKET
P
ARK
(7)

A small park across from 2 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. It has a bench next to a fountain and a metal sculpture identical to the scrimshaw turtle Susannah found in the bowling bag.

P
OLICE
S
HOOTING
R
ANGE
(3)

Shooting range on First Avenue, where Elmer Chambers practiced.

P
USHING
P
LACE
, T
HE
(1, 2, 3)

The intersection of Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street. In one version of reality, Jake Chambers died here when Jack Mort pushed him in front of a car.

R
EFLECTIONS OF
Y
OU
(3)

A mirror shop on Second Avenue between 48th and 49th streets. Eddie sees it in a dream and Jake passes it en route to the Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind.

R
IVERSIDE
H
OSPITAL
(5)

The hospital in Manhattan where Rowan Magruder is taken after the Hitler Brothers attack him. Father Callahan is hospitalized in the same room after Magruder dies.

70 R
OCKEFELLER
P
LAZA
(3)

Elmer Chambers's office at “The Network.”

S
ACRAMENTO
B
EE
(5, 7)

The newspaper where Father Callahan learns of the attack on Rowan Magruder. Ted Brautigan became a Breaker after answering a job ad in the same newspaper.

'S
ALEM'S
L
OT
, M
AINE

See Jerusalem's Lot.

S
ANTA
F
E
, N
EW
M
EXICO
(4)

One of the destinations served by the train station in Topeka. Roland remembers a Santa Fe in the Barony of Mejis.

S
EVENTH
A
VENUE
(2)

Clements Guns and Sporting Goods is located at the intersection with 49th Street.

S
IR
S
PEEDY
-P
ARK
(7)

Irene and David Tassenbaum rent two parking spots on a yearly basis at this lot on 63rd Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. Their apartment is nearby.

S
ISTERS OF
M
ERCY
H
OSPITAL
(2)

The hospital on 23rd Street where Odetta Holmes was taken after her accident.

S
IXTH
A
VENUE
(2)

Also known as the Avenue of the Americas. Jack Mort's office is located here.

S
T.
A
NDREWS
(5)

Father Callahan's church in 'Salem's Lot, Maine. It rejected him after Barlow tainted him.

S
TATION
S
HOES
& B
OOTS
(5)

Located on Second Avenue near 50th Street.

S
T
. L
OUIS
, M
ISSOURI
(3, 4)

American city that corresponds to Lud. The beginning of Charlie the Choo-Choo's run.

S
UNNYVALE
S
ANITARIUM
(3)

The mental institute Jake thinks he will end up in after his memories double.

S
UNSET
C
OTTAGE
(7)

The Tassenbaums' cottage in East Stoneham at the south end of Keywadin Pond. They purchased the place in 1994. Known as the old John Cullum place to the locals.

T
AOS
, N
EW
M
EXICO
(7)

Location of a ranch where Tet Corporation employs a dozen telepaths and precogs to monitor Roland and his
ka-tet
in Mid-World and spy on Sombra Corporation/North Central Positronics.

T
IMES
S
QUARE
(1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Jake is stopped by a police officer here because he is truant on the day he crosses back to Mid-World. Odetta Holmes and Father Callahan used to frequent movie theaters here.

T
ISHMAN
B
UILDING
(5)

Located at 982 Michigan Avenue in Detroit. One of the finest business addresses in the city. Sombra had offices on the thirty-third floor. Father Callahan leaped to his death from their conference room.

T
OM AND
G
ERRY'S
A
RTISTIC
D
ELI
(3, 4, 5, 6)

A small shop owned by Tommy Graham on the corner of Second Avenue and 46th Street. Party platters were their specialty. Calvin Tower, who owns the property, had the building torn down after it went out of business (between 1977
and 1981). Designated Lot #298, Block #19, it remained empty until sometime after Jake's visit in 1987. 2 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza was built at that location.

T
OPEKA
, K
ANSAS
(3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

The terminus of Blaine the Mono's route, as well as that of Charlie the Choo-Choo. The
ka-tet
finds the inspiration for Charlie the Choo-Choo in Gage Park. The Green Palace appears on its outskirts on Interstate 70. Father Callahan moved here in 1982, hit bottom and finally got sober.

T
OWER OF
P
OWER
(3, 5)

A record shop on Second Avenue and 51st Street.

T
URTLEBACK
L
ANE
(6, 7)

The road in Lovell, Maine, that appears to be the center of walk-in activity. It's a hilly road off Route 7 that's only one lane wide in places. Stephen King moved here to a house called Cara Laughs at #19 in the mid-1980s. It is also the site of a magic door.

T
URTLE
B
AY
(3)

A Manhattan neighborhood that comprises an area between 41st and 54th streets from Lexington Avenue to the East River. It is under the umbrella of
ka
.

T
URTLE
B
AY
L
UXURY
C
ONDOMINIUMS
(3, 5, 6, 7)

Building announced by Sombra Corporation for the empty lot containing the rose but never constructed.

T
URTLE
B
AY
W
ASHATERIA
(5, 6, 7)

Out-of-business laundry on 47th Street between First and Second avenues. The Hitler Brothers took Callahan here to kill him, but Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau interrupted them. There is a doorway between various versions of New York here.

U
NITED
N
ATIONS
B
UILDING
(3, 5)

Located on First Avenue and 46th Street in Turtle Bay.

U
NITED
N
ATIONS
P
LAZA
H
OTEL
(5, 6)

Located on First Avenue and 46th Street in Turtle Bay. It became the Plaza-Park Hyatt and was destined to become the Regal U.N. Plaza Hotel owned by Sombra/North Central in July 1999. Mathiessen van Wyck reserves a room
for Susannah/Mia in this hotel so she can wait for a call from Richard Sayre. Jake and Father Callahan retrieve Black Thirteen and the Orizas from the safe in room 1919.

V
ASSAR
C
OLLEGE
(3, 7)

Laura Chambers and Elvira Toothaker attended this school.

V
IETNAM
(2, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Henry Dean was injured fighting in the war there, which began his trouble with drugs.

W
ARRINGTON'S
(7)

A restaurant in East Stoneham, Maine, where the Tassenbaums sometimes dine.

Crossover to Other Works:
Warrington's also appears in
Bag of Bones
.

W
ASHINGTON
S
QUARE
P
ARK
(5)

Father Callahan spent his first night in New York here after fleeing from 'Salem's Lot. It becomes one of his favorite haunts. He sees the first signs of low men looking for him there.

W
HITE
P
LAINS
, N
EW
Y
ORK
(7)

Hometown of Eddie and Jake Toren.

W
ORLD
T
RADE
C
ENTER
(3, 6, 7)

Father Callahan and Jake put Black Thirteen in a coin-op storage locker in the basement of this building, where it would be safe for thirty-six months, until 2002. Rowan Magruder told Callahan it was the safest storage location in New York.

T
HINGS

A T
RAIN
(2, 3)

One of the trains in the New York subway system, made famous by a Duke Ellington song as a way to get to Harlem. A train from this line cut off Odetta Holmes's legs after Jack Mort pushed her at the Christopher Street station, though in our world the A train does not go there.

A
IR
D
ANCE
(5)

A book by Ben Mears, a character in
'Salem's Lot
, about a man who gets hung for the murder his brother committed. Eddie Dean read the novel.

Crossover to Other Works:
Susan Norton is reading this book when Ben Mears meets her in
'Salem's Lot
.

B
OING
B
OING
B
URGER
(4)

A fast-food chain in the version of Earth ravaged by the superflu.

B
ULLET
(7)

One of Bryan Smith's rottweilers.

C
APTAIN
T
RIPS
(4)

Name for the superflu in California.

C
HARLIE THE
C
HOO
-C
HOO
(3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

A children's book written by Beryl Evans in 1927 in one version of reality and by Claudia y Inez Bachman in 1936 in another. Jake buys a copy at the Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind. Greta Shaw, Eddie and Susannah owned the book when they were kids and all three lost their copies. It contains clues to handling Blaine the Mono. The cover features an anthropomorphic locomotive with a pink cowcatcher. The story mentions a girl named Susannah, a man named Martin (Marten) and a train that runs between St. Louis (Lud) and Topeka. Charlie is a 402 Big Boy Steam Locomotive, the best train in the Mid-World Railway Company until a diesel locomotive replaces him. His operator is Engineer Bob Brooks.

D
OGAN
, T
HE
(5, 6, 7)

The misprinted title of
The Hogan
, a Western written by Benjamin Slightman Jr.

F
ORSPECIAL
P
LATE
(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

A blue plate that was part of a wedding gift to Sophia Walker, Odetta Holmes's aunt. To Detta it is an avatar for her hatred because Odetta was injured after attending Sophia's wedding. Similar white plates with delicate blue webbing are found in the banquet hall at Castle Discordia. The Orizas of the Callas resemble this plate.

G
ARDEN OF THE
B
EAM
(7)