Thursday, May 20, 2010

Museum of Pez Memorabilia: Dispenser display

Walking into the diminutive and yet charmingly offbeat Museum of Pez Memorabilia, you may not be able to get your kids past the front room, which is essentially wall-to-wall Pez dispensers - featuring everything from 'Star Wars' ' General Grievous to Po the kung fu panda to Hello Kitty and Barbie. But if you can persuade the kids to check out the next room - possibly with the promise of a Pez dispenser of their own on the way out - there's a lot of fun stuff in the actual museum itself.

In fact, according to Gary Doss - the owner and enthusiastic fount of Pez and classic toy information - the display includes just about every Pez character manufactured since the 1950s, when the company began selling the candy holders with the toy heads. In an impressive case housing vintage Pez dispensers, Doss points out Casper the Friendly Ghost, Popeye and Mickey Mouse as three of the earliest characters licensed to Pez.

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