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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

Finally, the table in the middle of the room, south of the desk, is a collectable Schultz-design patio table with a blue top and metal legs designed for rugged use. It was used for decades as a working table where Bradbury used to keep anything and everything in a constant parade of projects. His daughters …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

To the left of the desk, on the shelf along the northern end of the western wall is a Mars globe that was created from pictures sent by the Mariner IX mission in November of 1971. Mariner IX was the first orbital mission to Mars. The Phoenix Lander near the North Pole has a digital …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

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 …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

All of the books on the shelves (which surround the southern, western, northern, and parts of the eastern wall) were his working library and the source of much of his education. He never went to college, as there just wasn’t enough money. He was primarily self-taught. And, he was a voracious reader. The blue desk …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

You now step forward to enter Bradbury’s office. You are now walking into a re-creation of Ray Bradbury’s basement office which is within inches of the size of the office in his LA home.

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

As you turn left to enter the recreation of Bradbury’s office, (you are now on the other side of the wall where the filing cabinets were lined up) you will see photos of Ray Bradbury to the left, the largest of which was taken with good friend, Ray Harryhausen, a pioneering creator of stop-action animation …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

As you look straight ahead you will see a door to the director’s office. To the left of this door, on a western dividing wall, you will see a portrait of Bradbury with his French Order of Arts and Letters Commandeur’s Medal, presented by the French Ambassador to the United States in 2007. In the …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

On the western end of the north wall is the publicity poster for the 1979 NBC Martian Chronicles television mini-series, and next to it are two composite landscapes of Mars taken by the Spirit rover (2006). To the right of these NASA images is an autographed print by American surrealist painter Robert Watson in blue; …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

Turning right and moving along the south wall you see file cabinets containing over 10,000 original pieces of correspondence, and other papers, manuscripts, documents and publications that were in Bradbury’s LA and Palm Springs homes, but never made it into his filing cabinets during this lifetime. As you reach the far southwest corner and turn …

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Posted on June 3rd, 2022 in by Prabakaran Jayaraman

To the south, or to your left, are bookshelves containing research copies of Bradbury’s books in various editions and printings. You take a few steps south. The foreign editions you see in the shelves to your right, or to the west, include texts in Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Armenian, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, …

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