Along the top of and in front of the bookcases on the western wall is a model of the Nautilus from the motion picture “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” which was made and given to Bradbury by the Disney Imagineers. Also here is a dinosaur model inspired by Windsor McKay’s “Gerty the Dinosaur” animated cartoons from the 1920’s. The Center also has a “Moundshroud” mask from his novel The Halloween Tree (1972), close to a picture of Bradbury painting the Halloween Tree. Along the western wall, in front of you, is the small wooden desk he used during the 1940’s and 50’s where he typed many of the stories that later appeared in “The Martian Chronicles” and “The Illustrated Man.” On the desk is the paint box that he used to paint the “Halloween Tree” in 1960 (a copy of which is atop the letter boxes to your left).

Autographed pictures of husband and wife comedy legends George Burns and Gracie Allen and actress Jean Harlow are displayed on top of the shelves in front of the paint set. Bradbury used to roller-skate to the movie studios and ask for film star autographs, but Burns and Allen were Bradbury favorites. During his ninth grade year (1934–1935), he persuaded Mr. Burns to let him sit in the studio during their weekly radio show, which was broadcast as the Burns and Allen White Owl Cigar program on radio and subsequently on television for decades.