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PEZ Museum, Burlingame
The world's only PEZ museum is located south of San Francisco in the town of Burlingame. Started over a decade ago, the museum now features every one of the more than 600 PEZ dispensers ever manufactured as well as other PEZ memorabilia. The owners, Gary and Nancy Doss originally started out selling computers out of this storefront but the PEZ sales overtook the demand for computers. The museum's awning still says 'Computer Spectrum'.
While the PEZ mints date back to 1927, they only gained wide popularity after switching from peppermint to fruit flavors and introducing their unique dispensers. Gary's museum tours point out the first dispensers (no heads, 1950), the first cartoon dispenser (Mickey Mouse, 1952), and the most valuable dispenser (Make-A-Face, 1973) which was immediately pulled off shelves for presenting a choking hazard with its tiny removable plastic parts.
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4 Comments:
awesome.
just curious, did you hear about this from our site?
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Oh yeah, I remember PEZ...
But for the life of me I can't remember which head I had on mine, and at this point I am starting to think that it didn't have a head -- even though the year must have been around 1955 (I would have been about eight years old), and you mentioned that the Mickey Mouse head came out in 1952. Maybe the headless models were still available in 1955? Maybe they cost less than the ones with heads? I just don't know...
One thing I DO know, if my PEZ dispenser DID have a head it would have been Donald Duck.
My kids have been to this museum, but I have not. I remember putting bunny pez dispensers in the kids' easter baskets one year.
Plug1,
Actually I did not see it at your site.
I've been ignoring the South Bay for too long and finally went to a number of locations there this weekend.
But I should visit WhatImSeeing.com more often, as should everyone.
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