Stately Dormyer Manor and environs

Have I made Lakewood Village up?

No.

Why there?

I wanted a small town not too close to DFW yet not too far away that wasn't under an approach/departure path to DFW International Airport. I spent several nights with Google Maps, Wikipedia, and TV Tropes before settling on Lakewood Village for the location of Stately Dormyer Manor. Locating it there also nailed ProStar's location down to somewhere around Plano.

Is there a 786 Stowe Lane in real life?

No. The addresses on the east side of Stowe Lane go from 710 to 800. If it WAS located anywhere, it would be somewhere around where 710 Stowe Lane is. As an amusing aside, the house UNTIL buys to keep tabs on Starforce in 'The Legacy of Dr. Destroyer' which is promptly wrecked, rebuilt, and bought by Biomaster would be the one at 800 Stowe Lane.

What is the issue with the bridges over Lake Lewisville you keep bringing up?

In 'O Little Town,' Mr. Bassman's flat tire occurs "just east of the toll bridge, proximate to what [Starforce] just described as that 'creepy-looking Victorian Mansion just past Garza Lane'." In 'The Paradox of Doctor Destroyer,' Bob nearly runs into Nebula on the road heading for Lewisville Dam coming home from Carrolton Park church, a routing that only makes sense if he is driving to a bridge whose western end is somewhere in Lake Dallas, TX.

Here's the problem. 'Paradox' takes place in 1986. 'O Little Town,' 1991. The bridge I assumed they were both using -- The Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge, from Lake Dallas to Lakewood Village -- doesn't get built until 2009.

Oops.

Since I REALLY don't want to have to rewrite both stories to accomodate the only access Lakewood Village has in either of those years to the mainland (Eldorado Parkway to FM 423, out of the way and completely in the opposite direction), here's what happened in-universe.

The Army Corps of Engineers builds Lewisville Dam on schedule throughout the 1950's. When the original Garza dam was breached in 1957, the Corps of Engineers commissioned a 2-lane replacement bridge in the rough location of the old dam. Looking at Google Maps, Garza Lane really looks like it originally extended along the old dam structure to terminate in the southeastern corner of the modern community of Lake Dallas, so that's not much of a stretch. By 1980, this bridge is identified as both insufficient for the traffic wanting to take it and structurally deficient. So, we move the toll bridge's construction up 20 years at the same location it occupies in reality and have it complete in 1989.

It's a win-win. Bob is driving for the old Garza bridge in 1986, and there's a toll bridge for Bowser to take in 1991. It also gives me a partly-completed structure halfway down the lake that Sage and Spiritual Warrior use during the climax of 'Piranharecho' in 1988.

Does Carrolton Park Church really exist?

Sadly, no. It's based on a fusion of two churches which I attended while living in (or near) Beavercreek, OH, and located on the far northeastern side of Carrolton close to the Dallas North Tollway ("Jurassic City"). From a geography standpoint, the closest Real Life analogues would be either Bent Tree Bible Church or Prestonwood Baptist Church. In the story "Castle Doctrine", the location I used and description of the main lobby from Jason Renton's perspective are both for Bent Tree Bible Church.