The Dark Tower Companion
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CHEW CHEW MAMA’S (3, 5, 6)
A small restaurant located on Second Avenue at 52nd Street. Its name reminds Jake of Charlie the Choo-Choo. It closed in 1994 and became Dennis’s Waffles and Pancakes.
CHRISTOPHER STREET STATION (2, 6)
Subway station on the west side of Greenwich Village where Jack Mort pushed Odetta Holmes in front of the A train. In Keystone Earth, the A train doesn’t go there.
CITY LIGHTS (5)
A bar on Lexington Avenue that Father Callahan frequented.
CLEMENTS GUNS AND SPORTING GOODS (2, 4)
The gun shop in Manhattan where Roland gets ammo for his guns. Located at Seventh Avenue and 49th. The police suspect the owner is selling guns to people like Enrico Balazar.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (6)
Odetta Holmes’s alma mater.
CO-OP CITY (2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
The housing project where Eddie and Henry Dean lived. In Eddie’s world, it is located in Brooklyn, but in Keystone Earth it is in the Bronx. Stephen King’s geographic mistake is the reason for the differences between worlds.
CULLUM CARETAKING AND CAMP CHECKING (7)
John Cullum’s business before he joins Tet Corporation.
2 DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA (6, 7)
The address of the skyscraper erected on the vacant lot at the corner of Second Avenue and 46th Street. A shrine: The House of the Rose. The lobby is full of light, admitted through two-story-tall windows. The Garden of the Beam is cordoned off with velvet ropes in the middle of the lobby. At the center is the rose representing the Dark Tower—the building was erected around it. Tet Corporation has its headquarters on the ninety-ninth floor. The people who work here call it the Black Tower. They wish they lived here and find excuses to work late. People often pass by the building to hear the singing voices that emanate from it.
DENBY’S DISCOUNT DRUG (3)
A drugstore in Times Square. Jake borrows its name when providing an alias to a cop who stops him for suspected truancy.
DENNIS’S WAFFLES AND PANCAKES (6)
On Second Avenue at 52nd Street. Opened after Chew Chew Mama’s closed in 1994. Trudy Damascus eats lunch here the day she meets Susannah and Mia.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN (5, 6)
Father Callahan worked at the Lighthouse Shelter in this city in 1983. He committed suicide during a fake meeting at the Sombra Corporation’s offices in that city to avoid being infected by Type Three vampires.
DIMITY ROAD (6)
Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau rent a house on this road in East Stoneham, Maine.
DIXIE PIG, THE (5, 6, 7)
Restaurant located at Lexington and 61st in Manhattan. It has a green awning imprinted with a grinning cartoon roasted pig. According to Gourmet magazine it has the best ribs in New York but its real specialty is “long pork,” or human flesh. The ka-tet first sees it mentioned in graffiti on the construction barricade surrounding the vacant lot. A version of it has probably been at this location since the time of the Dutch. Mia leads Susannah here to meet Richard Sayre, who takes them via an underground passage to a scientific door that goes to the Fedic Dogan. When Jake, Father Callahan and Oy arrive, a sign announces that it is closed for a private function. By the time Roland gets there, Tet Corporation is guarding the restaurant.
The dining room is lit by electric flambeaux on the walls and candles on the tables. A hanging tapestry shows knights and ladies dining at a long banquet table. Upon closer inspection, the “roast” is a human body. Behind the tapestry, Type One vampires feast on babies. The kitchen is identical to the one Jake saw when he followed Mia’s dream. A door in the corner of the pantry leads to a tiled stairway that descends to a tunnel protected by a mind-trap that ends at the Fedic door.
DRAWERS, THE (1, 2, 3, 4, 7, M)
The place where Detta Walker destroyed the blue “forspecial” plate. A smoking trash-littered gravel pit. She also uses the word to describe the place she hides while waiting for Roland to return from the Pusher doorway so she can kill him. Can also be applied to other places of self-destruction, such as whorehouses, drug dens and gambling houses. The Speaking Demon in the basement of the Way Station warned Roland to “go slow past the Drawers.” Roland thinks the word refers to lost places that are spoiled or useless, places of desolation, waste lands. Detta thinks of it as a place where she goes to fulfill herself.
DUTCH HILL (3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
Part of Brooklyn, a mile from where Eddie Dean grew up. Home of The Mansion, where Jake Chambers reentered Mid-World.
EAST STONEHAM GENERAL STORE (5, 6, 7)
A smaller version of Took’s General Store, owned by Chip McAvoy. Site of a shoot-out between Roland, Eddie and Balazar’s men. The store burned in that battle but was rebuilt larger and fancier. Roland finds two useful people here: John Cullum in 1977 and Irene Tassenbaum in 1999.
EAST STONEHAM, MAINE (5, 6, 7)
The central Maine town forty miles north of Portland where Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau hide out. A twin of Calla Bryn Sturgis: the church looks like Our Lady of Serenity; the Methodist Meeting Hall looks like the Calla Gathering Hall. Home to John Cullum. Irene Tassenbaum and her husband buy Cullum’s house as a summer home.
ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY (2, 3)
Home of Odetta Holmes’s Aunt Sophia. Odetta was walking to the train depot with her family when Jack Mort dropped a brick on her head.
FIFTH AVENUE (2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
A major thoroughfare in Manhattan. Odetta Holmes lives at the intersection with Central Park South. Jake Chambers lived on this street and died at the 43rd Street intersection. Eddie applies this name to a street in Lud.
FRENCH LANDING, WISCONSIN (7)
Where Walter o’Dim acquired the wire-lined hat that is supposed to protect him from Mordred.
Crossover to Other Works: Black House is set in French Landing.
GAGE PARK (4, 5, 7)
A park in Topeka, Kansas. The ka-tet ends up here after they get off Blaine the Mono. Features the Reinisch Rose Gardens and an old-time carousel. They also find the inspiration for the book Charlie the Choo-Choo. Father Callahan saw signs the low men had tracked him to Topeka here.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE (3, 5, 7)
A bridge between Manhattan and New Jersey familiarly known as the GWB. Eddie Dean’s uncle painted it. The bridge across the River Send outside Lud resembles it. Roland sees it from the window of Tet Corporation’s headquarters.
GREEN PALACE (4, 4.5, 5, 7)
Also known as the Emerald Palace and inspired by The Wizard of Oz. A castle-like building that appears to float across the lanes of I-70 outside Topeka. It seems to be made of glass and reflects the color of the sky. Pale green walls rise to jutting battlements and soaring towers topped with emerald green needles adorned with pennants featuring the open eye of the Crimson King. The inner redoubt is made of dark blue glass. A huge barred gate made of glass stakes the colors of the Wizard’s Rainbow blocks the entrance. Each stake except the central black bar contain human-like creatures representing the Guardians of the Beam. To the left of the main doorway is a sentry box made of cream-colored glass streaked with orange. Violet gargoyles flank the entrance above the entry. Inside, a vaulted hallway extends forty yards to thirty-foot doorway. The inner chamber is like the nave of a cathedral with the décor of a Barony Coach. The only furnishing is a green glass throne dozens of feet high. Above the throne are thirteen great cylinders pulsing the colors of the Wizard’s Rainbow. The building serves as a doorway back to the Path of the Beam and is also known to exist in Mid-World.
GREENWICH VILLAGE (2, 3, 5, 7)
Part of Manhattan. Detta Walker had a loft in an apartment building here. The Christopher Street subway station, where Odetta Holmes lost her legs, is located here, too.
GREYMARL APARTMENTS (2)
Odetta Holmes lived in the penthouse of this building, located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South.
GUTTENBURG, FURTH AND PATEL (6)
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HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT (4, 5, 7)
Father Callahan’s bus from ’Salem’s Lot stops here on the way to New York City. Ted Brautigan tried to enlist in the American Expeditionary Force here. One of those places where no one in their right mind would want to live, according to Eddie Dean.
HOME (5, 6)
A “wet” homeless shelter located at the intersection of First Avenue and 47th Street near the United Nations, founded in 1968. Father Callahan worked here for nine months in 1975 and 1976 with Lupe Delgado and Rowan Magruder. Mother Teresa helped serve dinner here once.
HOTDOG STAND (3)
Located at the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street. Jake bought a sweet sausage and a Nehi here after leaving the museum before heading to Brooklyn.
HOUSE OF CARDS (3)
A magic shop located at the intersection of Second Avenue and 52nd Street. The display in the window is a tower built from tarot cards. In Eddie’s dream, Enrico Balazar, who used to make houses of cards in his office, is a bum sitting out front.
HUNGRY I, THE (2, 6, 7)
The Greenwich Village coffeehouse Odetta Holmes visited just before she was pushed. She first heard “Man of Constant Sorrow” here in 1962.
I-70 (4, 5)
The interstate that traverses Topeka, Kansas. The ka-tet finds the Green Palace crossing its lanes.
JANGO’S (7)
Nightclub in Cleveland where Joe Collins claims he used to perform as a comedian.
JERUSALEM’S LOT (5, 6, 7)
A small town in Maine, familiarly known as ’Salem’s Lot. Father Callahan was the parish priest at St. Andrews from 1969 until vampires overran it in 1974. It is a real place to him, but fictional to everyone else.
KANSAS CITY BLUES (5)
A midtown saloon on 54th Street near Second Avenue.
KATZ’S DRUG STORE (2)
Site of the first penicillin robbery in history. Located at 395 West 49th Avenue.
KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (2, 5, 7)
One of New York City’s airports. Eddie’s flight from the Bahamas lands here.
KEYSTONE EARTH (5, 6, 7)
The most important version of our reality—the one that contains the rose and Stephen King. Level Nineteen of the Dark Tower. Time moves only in one direction here, and all deaths are final. It has a resonance that all other worlds—even Mid-World—lack. The name is coined by the Breakers of Algul Siento. Taheen call it the Real World. Most Breakers come from here.
KEYWADIN POND (6, 7)
A lake behind the East Stoneham General Store. John Cullum has a house on the south end that Irene Tassenbaum and her husband buy after he joins Tet Corporation.
KEZAR LAKE (6, 7)
The lake next to Stephen King’s home on Turtleback Lane in Lovell, Maine.
LAS VEGAS (4, 5, 7)
Where the Dark Man is, according to a message found on I-70 outside Topeka.
Crossover to Other Works: Randall Flagg assembles his followers here in The Stand.
LEABROOK, NEW JERSEY (5)
An alternate version of Fort Lee, where Father Callahan worked as a short-order cook.
LEANING TOWER, THE (2, 3, 5, 6)
Balazar’s bar in Manhattan.
LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER, THE (5)
A wet shelter in Detroit where Father Callahan was working when he died.
LOS ZAPATOS, MEXICO (5)
Black Thirteen sent Father Callahan here for Ben Mears’s funeral.
LOVELL, MAINE (6, 7)
The western Maine town that Stephen King moves to from Bridgton. Turtleback Lane and Cara Laughs are located here.
MACY’S (2, 3, 5)
Department store located at Sixth Avenue and 34th Street where Detta Walker is shoplifting when Roland encounters her for the first time.
MAJESTIC THEATER (3, 5, 6)
Movie theater at the corner of Castle and Markey avenues. Eddie Dean saw many movies here when he was a kid, including Clint Eastwood Westerns. It smelled of piss and popcorn and the kind of wine that came in brown bags. When Jake Chambers passes it, the theater is advertising Spaghetti Week and playing A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. A movie poster featuring Eastwood reminds Jake of Roland.
MANHATTAN RESTAURANT OF THE MIND (3, 5, 6, 7)
A used bookstore owned by Calvin Tower, located on Second Avenue between 52nd and 54th streets. Jake Chambers buys a copy of Charlie the Choo-Choo here and is given a copy of Riddle-de-Dum! It has a chalkboard hanging in the window announcing the day’s specials like in a restaurant. The interior is also outfitted like a restaurant, with a fountain-style counter bisecting the room and tables equipped with wire-backed Malt Shoppe chairs arranged to display the specials. Jake thinks it is the best bookstore he’s ever been in, though it probably doesn’t do more than fifty dollars in business a day. It has a storage area as big as a warehouse with stacks running fourteen to sixteen feet tall. The store cat is named Sergio. Enrico Balazar had it burned down on June 24, 1977, but Tower rebuilds it and dies here in 1990.
MANSION, THE (3, 5)
Abandoned, crumbling, condemned Victorian mansion on Rhinehold Street near the intersection with Brooklyn Street in Dutch Hill. Covered in vines and boarded up. The windows are broken, but it shows no other signs of vandalism except for spray paint on the fence around it. Regarded as haunted by area children, and two teens who tried to use it as a makeout pad were supposedly found dead and drained of their blood. Nine blocks from the apartment where Eddie Dean lived. Henry Dean says he wouldn’t go inside for a million dollars. The house is alive, a manifestation of a monster called the doorkeeper that tries to prevent Jake from using the portal within to get back to Mid-World. The key Jake found in the abandoned lot fits this door. After Jake passes through, the house collapses upon itself.
MARINE MIDLAND BANK (5)
The bank where Home does its business, located on Third Avenue between 47th and 48th streets.
MARKEY ACADEMY (3)
Name of a fictitious school that Jake uses as part of his alibi while skipping school.
MARKEY AVENUE (3, 5, 7)
Location of Eddie Dean’s apartment building in Co-Op City, Brooklyn. He and Henry used to shoot hoops in a playground that is now the site of the Juvenile Court Building.
MARSTEN HOUSE (5)
The house in ’Salem’s Lot, Maine, where Barlow lives.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (3)
Jake hangs out here to kill time before heading to Brooklyn on the day he crosses back to Mid-World. Though it is located on Fifth Avenue and 82nd in Keystone Earth, it seems to be close to Times Square in Jake’s world.
MIDTOWN LANES (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, M)
A bowling alley in Manhattan frequented by Jake Chambers. Located on 33rd Street. The pink bowling bag Jake finds in the vacant lot says “Nothing but Strikes in MidTown Lanes.”
MID-WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK AND FUN FAIR (3)
The park in California where Charlie the Choo-Choo ended up.
MOREHOUSE (5, 6)
An all-male black college in Atlanta. A sign of affluence that Detta Walker disdains. Her reference point is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT (3)
Susannah saw whales in the Seaquarium there.
NASSAU (2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
Capital of the Bahamas. Eddie went there to purchase cocaine for Enrico Balazar to help pay for his heroin habit. He meets Roland for the first time while returning from that trip. Sombra Corporation is incorporated here.
NEBRASKA (3, 4, 5)
Where to find Abigail (“the old woman from the dreams”) according to a message found on the side of I-70 outside Topeka.
Crossover to Other Works: Mother Abigail lives in Hemingsford Home, Nebraska, in The Stand.
NEW YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL (5)
Hospital where Lupe Delgado dies from AIDS.
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (5)
Located at 455 Fifth Avenue. Fath
er 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.
ODETTA, ARKANSAS (2)
Birthplace of Odetta Holmes’s mother.
OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI (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.
OZ (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.
PAPER PATCH, THE (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 PARK AVENUE SOUTH (2)
Jack Mort’s apartment. Roland supplied this address when talking to the police officers outside Clements Guns and Sporting Goods.
PIPER SCHOOL (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.
PLAZA HOTEL (5)
Fifth Avenue at Central Park South. Lupe Delgado worked on the maintenance crew.
PLAZA-PARK HYATT
See United Nations Plaza Hotel.
POCKET PARK (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.
POLICE SHOOTING RANGE (3)
Shooting range on First Avenue, where Elmer Chambers practiced.
PUSHING PLACE, THE (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.
REFLECTIONS OF YOU (3)