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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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