For nearly 60 years, publishing houses scattered throughout New York City, Chicago and other cities churned out pulp mgazines.
Their names are remembered — Street & Smith, Popular Publications, Standard Magazines and others — but their office locations have been all but forgotten by most pulp fans.
For fun, we’ve pulled together addresses for many publishers and linked them to Google Maps, which also often lets you view the site in a satellite photo, or MapQuest. In addition to publishers, we also have included a few other addresses related to the fictioneers who edited, wrote or illustrated the pulps. We’re limiting this to actual places, rather than locales depicted in pulp stories, such as Doc Savage’s Empire State Building headquarters.
Of course, if you know of a “pulp place” that we should add to this list, please drop us an e-mail (please include the address of the pulp place) and we’ll cheerfully add it. Photos of those places also would be welcomed.
Now, let’s start our journey to these “pulp places”:
Publishers
Some publishers may have multiple addresses, which reflect moves over the years, or the same address as another publisher because of a business affiliation.
- American Fiction Group
- 330 W. 42nd St., New York
- Best Books Inc. (1950s’ Ranch Romances publisher)
- 10 E. 40th St., New York
- Better Publications Inc.
- 10 E. 40th St., New York
- Culture Publications
- 480 Lexington Ave., New York
- 125 E. 46th St., New York
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- 149 Madison Ave., New York
- Double Action Group
- 60 Hudson St., New York
- Experimenter Pub. Co. (Amazing Stories)
- 230 Fifth Ave., New York
- Fiction House Inc.
- 271 Madison Ave., New York
- Frank A. Munsey Co.
- 280 Broadway, New York
- Macfadden Publications Inc.
- 205 E. 42nd St., New York
- Magazine Publishers
- 67 W. 44th St., New York
- McCall Corp.
- 230 Park Ave., New York
- Newsstand Fiction Unit
- 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
- Phil Painter Publications (Breezy Stories)
- 30 E. 22nd St., New York
- Popular Publications
- 220 W. 42nd. St., New York
- 205 E. 42nd St., New York
- Ranger Publications Inc. (Black Book Detective Magazine)
- 4600 Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL
- Ridgway Co. Publishers (Adventure)
- Spring and MacDougal Streets, New York
- Short Stories
- 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
- Standard Magazines
- 28 W. 48th St., New York
- 144 W. 48th St., New York
- 10 E. 40th St., New York
- Street & Smith Publications Inc.
- 79 Seventh Ave., New York
- Teck Publications Inc.
- 461 Eighth Ave., New York
- 10 Story Book Corp.
- 529 S. Clark St., Chicago
- Trojan Publishing Corp.
- 480 Lexington Ave., New York
- Warner Publications Inc.
- 515 Madison Ave., New York
- Weird Tales
- 840 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago
- Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.
- 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago
- 540 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago
- 185 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago
Fictioneers
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan), home
- 18354 Ventura Blvd. Tarzana, Calif.
- Lester Dent (author of Doc Savage), home
- 225 N Church St., La Plata, Mo.
- Dashiell Hammett
- 620 Eddy St., San Francisco, Calif.
- Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), home
- 625 W. Highway 36, Cross Plains, Texas
Sources: Ayer & Sons Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals; The Pulp Jungle, by Frank Gruber; Book of the Dead, by E. Hoffman Price; Pulp Fictioneers, by John Locke; various pulp magazines; and Web sources.
