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From the Collection

Dennis Wright, the man behind Radio Days, is a longtime collector of old-time radio. Here are a few of his shelves, photographed at his secret, undisclosed underground location: premiums, toys, radios and posters from the shows you hear on Radio Days. You can see many more of the premiums, photographed one by one, in Radio Premiums in the Menu.

A tall glass case full of Lone Ranger figures, toys and paper items, with a Lone Ranger toy guitar on top and a Space Patrol periscope on the wall beside it — The Lone Ranger case, with a Lone Ranger guitar on top and a Space Patrol Periscope on the wall beside it.

A corner of a display with framed Space Patrol and Buck Rogers papers, a yellow Space Patrol helmet, a Buck Rogers paper helmet on a foam head, and a Sony reel-to-reel tape deck — Space Patrol and Buck Rogers, with a Sony TC-755 reel-to-reel deck.

Two glass shelves with a Flash Gordon Space Outfit display, rings and figures above, and Buck Rogers ray guns and a Solar Scouts booklet below — Flash Gordon's Space Outfit above; Buck Rogers ray guns and the Solar Scouts book below.

A long glass case with Green Hornet buttons and models, a Shadow statue in a glass box, a wooden cathedral radio, and Shadow and Tarzan items on the shelf below — The Green Hornet and The Shadow, with The Black Flame of the Amazon on the shelf below.

A statue of The Shadow in a red-lined black cape, in a glass box, with a ring in front of it and a card holding a piece of blue coal — The Shadow, with a ring and a card holding a specimen of Blue Coal, the show's sponsor.

A wall of framed posters for Shadow and Superman record albums of original radio broadcasts, with a framed Superman print and an Action Comics number 1 cover — The Shadow and Superman on the wall: posters for the original radio broadcasts.

A wooden console radio with Batman figures and a bat signal on top, between shelves of Superman movies and a guitar, with Shadow and Green Hornet posters on the wall behind it and model bombers hanging from the ceiling — An old console radio holding up Batman, with The Shadow and The Green Hornet on the wall behind it.

A wooden radio with a brass Superman S on its front, on top of an old console radio, with Superman figures around it and a framed Superman's Friend picture — A Superman radio sitting on an old console, with a Superman's Friend frame beside it.

Space Patrol items on glass shelves: a Rice Chex box, a boxed Space-A-Phone walkie-talkie, a black ray gun, coins, a rocket and more ray guns below — Space Patrol: a Rice Chex box, the Official Walkie-Talkie Space-A-Phone, ray guns and coins.

A tall case with four Little Orphan Annie Ovaltine shake-up mugs, a chrome microphone, Abbott and Costello figures and a Charlie McCarthy doll on top, and Mountie figures, Amos 'n' Andy and Fibber McGee items on the shelves below — Little Orphan Annie's Ovaltine shake-up mugs, Abbott and Costello, Charlie McCarthy, Mounties, Amos 'n' Andy and Fibber McGee.