Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated

by Robin Furth

  ATCHISON

  See KANSAS (STATE OF); see also ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD below

  ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD

  The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company (originally called the Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company) was founded in 1859 by Colonel Cyrus K. Holliday of KANSAS, one of the founders of the town of TOPEKA. The railroad changed its name in 1863 because of its planned expansion. By 1887 the railroad extended all the way to Los Angeles. Known as “The Atchison” in the East and as “The Santa Fe” in the West, it was one of the major railroads serving the Southwest United States.

  Our ka-tet stumbles across a sign for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe at BLAINE’s terminating point in an alternative version of our world’s Kansas. Roland assumes—quite rightly—that the three names designate three towns. However, because he does not know the history of railroads in our where (or in this Topeka’s alternate when) he does not understand the full significance of these places or of the towns he sees listed on the departures board, namely DENVER, WICHITA, and OMAHA.

  All of the listed towns were linked—directly or indirectly—by the AT&SF. Obviously, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe were part of the service’s main run. Denver was also served by the Atchison line, and Wichita could be reached by one of the railroad’s branch lines. Although Omaha was actually accessible by the Union Pacific Railroad, the Union Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe were linked in 1881, completing the second transcontinental railroad.

  Hence, what we learn from Roland’s sojourn in the alternative Topeka is that not only do the GREAT ROADS of MID-WORLD follow the BEAM but so do the great railroads. Also, it seems that these railroads can be used not only to cross continents, but to jump from one level of the DARK TOWER to another. Blaine and his fellow locomotives and slo-trans engines are PORTALS every bit as much as the other doorways in and out of Mid-World. The GREAT OLD ONES, aided by the technology of their sinister company, NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS, learned how to bridge the time/space continuum.

  IV:68

  ATLANTIC CITY

  See NEW JERSEY (STATE OF)

  ATTICA STATE PRISON

  See NEW YORK (STATE OF)

  AUSCHWITZ

  See POLAND

  AUSTRIA

  VIENNA: Sigmund Freud, author of Ego and Id (1923), studied medicine in Vienna and joined the staff of the Vienna General Hospital in 1882. In Ego and Id, Freud discussed his theories concerning the division of the unconscious mind into the id, the ego, and the superego. AUSTIN CORNWELL and his fellow fake UFFIS must have read this book. VI:231 (Viennese)

  B

  BABYLON

  VI:319

  BACK BAY

  See MASSACHUSETTS (STATE OF)

  BAHAMAS

  EDDIE DEAN’S little trip to the Bahamas almost ends in disaster and incarceration. Although he is dressed like a college kid, Eddie goes to NASSAU so that he can smuggle packages of cocaine for the drug king ENRICO BALAZAR. At this point in our story (namely, at the beginning of The Drawing of the Three), Eddie is a heroin addict under the thumb of his older brother, the great sage and eminent junkie HENRY DEAN. Roland saves Eddie’s bacon three times: first by helping him evade the CUSTOMS police, second by coming to his aid against Balazar and his thugs, and finally by spiriting Eddie off to LOBSTROSITY BEACH. There, on the shore of the WESTERN SEA, Eddie comes down off the Horse, only to become addicted to ODETTA HOLMES (aka DETTA WALKER/SUSANNAH DEAN) and another potent drug—Love.

  II:42, II:86, II:87, II:112, II:176, V:453, VI:212, VII:19

  NASSAU (AQUINAS HOTEL): Eddie goes to Nassau to pick up Balazar’s cocaine. While there he stays at the Aquinas Hotel. II:47, II:47–51 (hotel), II:57 (flashback to hotel), II:58, III:346, V:453, V:524, VII:19

  BALAZAR’S OFFICE

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: LEANING TOWER

  BANGOR

  See MAINE (STATE OF): PENOBSCOT COUNTY

  BARCELONA LUGGAGE STORE

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE

  BEAMS

  See BEAMS, PATH OF THE, in PORTALS

  BECKHARDT COTTAGE

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: LOVELL: TURTLEBACK LANE

  BEIRUT

  See LEBANON

  BERGEN-BELSEN

  See GERMANY

  BERMUDA

  LAMLA, a TAHEEN servant of the CRIMSON KING, likes to wear Bermuda shorts (close-fitting shorts which reach the knees). I don’t know what connection Bermuda shorts have to Bermuda, but I figure it’s worth mentioning.

  VII:104

  BERMUDA TRIANGLE

  See entry in PORTALS

  BERNIE’S BARBER SHOP

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  BLACK FORK

  See ARIZONA (STATE OF)

  BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA

  See INDIA

  BLACK TOWER (2 HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA)

  See LOT, THE: 2 HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA, in PORTALS

  BLACKSTRAP MOLASSES CAFÉ

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  BLEECKER STREET

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  BOGOTÁ

  See COLOMBIA

  BOLIVIA

  Back in The Drawing of the Three, EDDIE DEAN tried to smuggle cocaine into NEW YORK CITY for ENRICO BALAZAR. This high-grade white powder originated in Bolivia. Eddie refers to it as Bolivian marching powder.

  V:525

  BONDED ELECTROPLATE FACTORY

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  BOSTON

  See MASSACHUSETTS (STATE OF)

  BRAZIL

  According to FRANK ARMITAGE, secret servant of the CRIMSON KING, most of the South American businessmen who hired the SOUTH AMERICAN SEABEES were Brazilian.

  VII:284

  RIO: VII:285

  BRENDIO’S (SHOP)

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  BRIDGTON

  See MAINE (STATE OF): CUMBERLAND COUNTY

  BROOKLYN

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  BROOKLYN BRIDGE

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  BRYCE

  See COLORADO (STATE OF)

  BUCHENWALD

  See GERMANY

  C

  CAIRO

  See EGYPT

  CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)

  During his years traveling along the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, PERE CALLAHAN spent quite a bit of time in California. His longest drunken period (four full days) took place in this state. While in SACRAMENTO, Callahan discovered that his old friend ROWAN MAGRUDER had been attacked by the HITLER BROTHERS.

  Callahan’s twinner, TED BRAUTIGAN, applied for his job of a lifetime while in California. He got the position, but it ended up being a life sentence as a BREAKER in THUNDERCLAP.

  III:284, V:179, V:305, V:306–309, V:424, VI:13, VI:211, VII:707

  DEATH VALLEY: V:461

  DISNEYLAND: II:169, V:152, VII:369

  FORT ORD: V:101

  HOLLYWOOD: V:451, V:640, VII:207

  LOS ANGELES: V:451

  SACRAMENTO: CALLAHAN spent the spring of 1981 in Sacramento. He read about ROWAN MAGRUDER’s terrible injuries in the Sacramento Bee. V:296 (Bee), V:306–9, V:422, VII:281, VII:283

  CRAZY MARY’S: FATHER CALLAHAN and his Mexican workmates liked the enchiladas made at this take-out restaurant. V:307

  SLEEPY JOHN’S: FATHER CALLAHAN worked here while living in Sacramento. V:307

  SAN BERDOO: V:102

  SAN FRANCISCO: In the back of an out-of-business dance studio, surrounded by filmy pink tutus, FRANK ARMITAGE, a hume servant of the CRIMSON KING, offered TED BRAUTIGAN the job of a lifetime. The job turns out to be a life sentence in the DEVAR-TOI of THUNDERCLAP. V:255, V:451, VI:188, VII:7, VII:211, VII:281, VII:283, VII:285, VII:286, VII:289, VII:657

  MARK HOPKINS HOTEL: VII:286

  SANTA MIRA: A door here leads from our world to THUNDERCLAP. VII:287–89, VII:297

  SEAMAN’S SAN FRANCISCO BANK: VII:285, VII:287, VII
:289

  SANTA MONICA: VII:471

  SANTA MONICA ASPCA: IRENE and DAVID TASSENBAUM began their romance here amid the howls and yaps of homeless pets. Irene arrived looking for a kitten; David came to drop off a stray dog. Irene may not have found her kitten, but she did find a beau. VII:471

  YOSEMITE: VI:242

  CALTECH

  DAVID TASSENBAUM attended CalTech. According to his wife, IRENE, David and his CalTech friends invented the Internet.

  VII:429

  CANADA

  VII:94

  MONTREAL: One of the little old ladies on EDDIE DEAN’S disastrous Delta flight from NASSAU to NEW YORK was headed to Montreal. II:78–79, VII:94

  CANNIBAL ISLANDS

  See entry in PORTALS

  CAPE CANAVERAL

  See FLORIDA (STATE OF)

  CARA LAUGHS

  See DOORWAYS BETWEEN WORLDS, in PORTALS

  CASTLE AVENUE

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  CENTRAL PARK

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  CHEW CHEW MAMA’S

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: SECOND AVENUE

  CHICAGO

  See ILLINOIS (STATE OF)

  CHINA

  III:287, V:561

  CHRISTOPHER STREET STATION

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  CHURCH OF THE HOLY GOD-BOMB

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  CHURCH OF THE WALK-INS

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: STONEHAM

  CITY HALL

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  CLEMENTS GUNS AND SPORTING GOODS

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

  Clemson University is located in Clemson, SOUTH CAROLINA. DAMLI HOUSE of the DEVAR-TOI would look at home on the Clemson campus.

  VII:230

  CLEVELAND

  See OHIO (STATE OF)

  COHOES STREET

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  COLOMBIA

  BOGOTÁ: II:58

  COLORADO (STATE OF)

  IV:32, V:192, VII:283, VII:811

  BRYCE: The BREAKER TANYA LEEDS was born and raised in Bryce.

  VII:283

  DENVER: One of the towns that could be reached by the ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD. (See also ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD.) IV:72, V:192

  COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

  ODETTA HOLMES attended this university. During a late-night college hen party, she heard the story of a girl on a road trip who was too shy to tell her friends that she had to stop and pee. As a result, her bladder burst in the car. (Messy!)

  During her college years, Odetta (later Susannah) took Psych I with PROFESSOR OVERMEYER. In this class she learned the fantastic visualization technique which helps her see, and enter, her internal DOGAN. While at Columbia, she also took a medieval history course with PROFESSOR MURRAY. Professor Murray taught his students the story of KING ARTHUR and his betraying son/nephew MORDRED.

  VI:62, VI:116, VI:221

  CONEY ISLAND

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  CONNECTICUT (STATE OF)

  When TED BRAUTIGAN escaped from the DEVAR-TOI through a door made for him by his fellow BREAKER, SHEEMIE, he landed in Connecticut. The story of Ted’s Connecticut adventure—and of his friendship with BOBBY GARFIELD—is the subject of the short story “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” which can be found in the STEPHEN KING book Hearts in Atlantis.

  In the recorded tale which our ka-tet listens to in their camp on STEEK-TETE in THUNDERCLAP, Ted confides that he was born in MILFORD, Connecticut, in 1898. However, in Hearts in Atlantis, he tells Bobby Garfield that he was born in Teaneck, NEW JERSEY. (In the latter case, Ted must have been talking about a parallel version of himself.)

  VI:389, VII:212, VII:233, VII:234, VII:270, VII:273, VII:297, VII:298, VII:304, VII:326, VII:339, VII:357, VII:376, VII:415

  BRIDGEPORT: This is where the LOW MEN caught TED BRAUTIGAN at the end of his Connecticut adventure. They dragged him back to the DEVARTOI. For more information about Ted’s little vacation in Connecticut, see Hearts in Atlantis. VII:376

  HARTFORD: V:263, VII:274–76, VII:282, VII:297

  EAST HARTFORD HIGH: During World War One, TED BRAUTIGAN visited a recruitment office here. He was rejected because of health problems but also because he was a telepath. His uncanny abilities frightened the doctors. VII:275

  HARWICH: VII:483

  MOTEL 6: VII:483

  MILFORD: In the final book of the Dark Tower series, TED BRAUTIGAN tells our tet that he was born in Milford in 1898. VII:212, VII:273, VII:415

  MYSTIC: III:32

  NORWICH: PATRICK DANVILLE’s pencils (complete with erasers) were bought in a Norwich Woolworth’s in 1958. Hence, Norwich played its own small but significant part in Roland’s ultimate triumph over the CRIMSON KING. VII:800

  SEDONVILLE: Somewhere in this town, buried under a chicken house, is an Irishman shot dead for blowing down one of BALAZAR’s card houses. II:117

  WESTPORT: V:544, VI:185

  CO-OP CITY

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  COPIAH

  See MISSISSIPPI (STATE OF)

  COSTA DEL SOL

  See SPAIN

  CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY

  See NEW YORK CITY: BRONX

  CUBA

  JANE DORNING—one of the stewardesses on EDDIE’s Delta flight from NASSAU to JFK—harbors a fear of being hijacked by Cubans.

  II:54, VII:599

  CULLUM’S CABIN

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: EAST STONEHAM: KEYWADIN POND

  CUSTOMS, NEW YORK

  See NEW YORK CITY: QUEENS

  CUYAHOGA RIVER

  See OHIO

  D

  DAHLIE’S (DAHLBERG’S)

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  DALE’S FANCY BUTCHER SHOP

  See OHIO (STATE OF): AKRON

  DEAN FAMILY APARTMENT

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  DELAWARE (STATE OF)

  During his years traveling along the HIGHWAYS IN HIDING, PERE CALLAHAN worked for a while as an apple-picker in Delaware.

  V:302

  ROUTE 71: V:302

  DENBY’S DISCOUNT DRUG

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: TIMES SQUARE

  DENMARK

  See also MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY

  VII:603

  DENMARK, MAINE

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY

  DENNIS’S WAFFLES AND PANCAKES

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: CHEW CHEW MAMA’S

  DENVER

  See COLORADO; see also ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD

  DES MOINES

  See IOWA (STATE OF)

  DETROIT

  See MICHIGAN (STATE OF)

  DETTA’S SEX HAUNTS

  See DRAWERS, in PORTALS

  DIMITY ROAD

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY: EAST STONEHAM

  DISNEYLAND

  See CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)

  DISNEY WORLD

  See FLORIDA (STATE OF)

  DIXIE PIG

  See entry in PORTALS

  DODGE

  See KANSAS

  DOORS: NEW YORK TO MID-WORLD

  See DOORWAYS BETWEEN WORLDS, in PORTALS

  DRAWERS

  See entry in PORTALS

  DUBLIN

  See IRELAND

  DUKE UNIVERSITY

  Duke University has a department of Psychical Research. According to JOHN CULLUM, one of the subjects they study is WALK-IN activity.

  VI:152

  DUTCH HILL

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  DUTCH HILL MANSION

  See DOORWAYS BETWEEN WORLDS, in PORTALS

  DUTCH HILL PUB

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  DUTCH HILL USED APPLIANCES

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN

  E

  EAST CONWAY VILLAGE


  See NEW HAMPSHIRE (STATE OF)

  EAST FRYEBURG

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY

  EAST STONEHAM

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY

  EASTER ISLAND

  III:24

  ECUADOR

  IV:86

  EGYPT

  VII:115

  CAIRO: V:140

  PYRAMIDS: VII:115

  **ENGLAND

  In The Gunslinger, WALTER O’DIM claims that he lived in England hundreds (or perhaps a thousand) years before the GREAT OLD ONES crossed the ocean to the land that Roland now inhabits. In the 2003 version of The Gunslinger, the direct reference to England is cut. In the final book of the Dark Tower series we find out that GRACE RUMBELOW, an incredibly annoying BREAKER, came from ALDERSHOT.

  I:211, VI:390, VII:394

  HAMPSHIRE: VII:394

  ALDERSHOT: VII:394

  LONDON: IV:34, V:91, V:506, VII:242

  STONEHENGE: VII:777

  ETHIOPIA

  VII:732

  EVEREST

  See MOUNT EVEREST

  F

  FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY-THIRD STREET

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN

  FLORIDA (STATE OF)

  V:305, VI:408, VII:570, VII:674

  BUSCH GARDENS: RIVER CROSSING’s garden (located behind the CHURCH OF THE BLOOD EVERLASTING) reminds EDDIE of Busch Gardens. III:233

  CAPE CANAVERAL: When SUSANNAH sees the missiles lining the GREAT ROAD leading to LUD, she thinks about the Redstones fired from Cape Canaveral. III:287

  DISNEY WORLD: II:334, III:73, III:91

  FLORIDA KEYS: II:227

  FORD ORD

  See CALIFORNIA (STATE OF)

  FORMOSA (TAIWAN)

  Originally known by its aboriginal name, Pakan, this island was renamed Formosa when an early Dutch navigator (sailing on a Portuguese ship) saw it and exclaimed, “Ilha formosa,” or “beautiful island.” The contemporary name Taiwan is an adaptation of the word tayouan, which means “terrace bay.”

  VII:115

  FOUR FATHERS RESTAURANT

  See NEW YORK CITY: BROOKLYN: GINELLI’S PIZZA

  FRANCE

  VII:275, VII:276

  PARIS: VI:242

  LOUVRE: VII:242

  NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL: V:595

  FRENCH LANDING

  See WISCONSIN (STATE OF)

  FRYEBURG

  See MAINE (STATE OF): OXFORD COUNTY

  G

  GAGE PARK

  See KANSAS (STATE OF): TOPEKA

  GAIETY

  See NEW YORK CITY: MANHATTAN: TIMES SQUARE

  GARDEN OF THE BEAM

  See LOT, THE, in PORTALS