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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)

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

QUEENS

See
NEW YORK CITY

QUINCON

II:58

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

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

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

TOPEKA

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

TOWER OF POWER RECORDS