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 in motion pictures. Another photo was taken with his wife, Maggie on a trip to Buenos Aires, where they were guests of the Argentine nation in 1997; the photographer was the famed Argentine photographic artist Aldo Sessa.

There is also a photograph of Bradbury with Maggie and renowned film director John Huston taken in 1953 in Ireland when Bradbury was writing the script for “Moby Dick,” starring Gregory Peck. This wall also features a 1990 photo with Indianapolis native son Kurt Vonnegut, taken by famous portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh; and photographs with Bradbury and Hollywood stars Vincent Gardenia, Edward James Olmos, and Joe Montegna, a great friend who starred with Esai Morales and Olmos in the Disney film adapted from Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.” Two of Bradbury’s Retro Hugo Award citations from the 2016 Science Fiction WorldCon are also on display with these photographs. The Center also preserves four of Bradbury’s Retro Hugo statuettes, which were awarded since 2002 to recognize significant work published before the Hugo Awards were created in 1952.