What Everyone is Saying About the
Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia
 

cnn june 10, 2002  

CNN Report "Pez Turns 50"
Anne McDermott - reporter

Shown on June 10, 2002.

Teen People TEEN PEOPLE MAGAZINE - AUGUST 2002
"Summer Fun" Page 155.

"Throw an unforgettable party, get in shape and have a blast with 100-plus ways to kick-start your days." "Number 5 - Visit a weird museum, like California's Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia or Massachusett's Museum of Bad Art."

San Mateo Daily Journal San Mateo Daily Journal - August 30, 2002
"A Passion for Pez" by Emily Landes.

"Gary Doss is haunted by a pineapple wearing sunglasses."
"If he could only get a hold of the 1970s era Pez dispenser featuring the stylish fruit, the Pez collector and owner of the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia's collection would be complete...."

Daily Register Banner A "Pez'tacular destination -- Burlingame museum honors a favorite candy dispenser. By Amy Maginnis-Honey. January 6, 2000
BURLINGAME - There isn't much chance of heads rolling at the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia. The countless numbers of noggins, bearing the likenesses of everyone from Darth Vader to Fred Flintstone, are all attached to candy dispensers, as they should be. (...more)

Disney Adventure Magazine DISNEY ADVENTURES MAGAZINE - SUMMER 1999

"The Weirdest Vacation Ever!" Page 47.

The article by Yolanda Crous lists 12 funky vacation spots.

"You'll flip your lid when you visit the Pez museum in Burlingame, CA--featuring more than 500 Pez dispensers, like Miss Piggy and Batgirl!"

RIPLEY'S - BELIEVE IT OR NOT
The museum appeared in this famous syndicated column on
October 20, 1998.

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DISPENSING MEMORIES By Douglas Balz - Tribune Staff Writer
(May 19, 1998) "BURLINGAME, Calif. --In this suburb about 20 miles south of San Francisco, a couple of doors down from a Honda dealership, is the world's only Pez museum, concealed in a computer store." (...more)
Bay Area Backroads--(Aired 9/29/96) "Inside a South Bay computer store, a one-of-a-kind museum exists to honor a symbol of American childhood: Pez, the quirky plastic statues that spit candy from their necks. Pez has fascinated and fed Americans for generations. "What could be more perfect than a toy that gives you candy?" says museum curator Gary Doss. " (...more)
KGO-TV Channel 7--(Aired 3/4/96) "The Bay Area as a center of culture. We have some of the great museums of the world. In most cases, you've already heard about them. But as Channel 7's Wayne Freeman shows us tonight, there is one that continues to remain fairly obscure." (...more)
KRON-TV Channel 4--(Aired 3/15/96) "The Bay Area boasts a plethera of museums all filled with semi priceless works of art. So many museums in fact that it seems there is something for everybody. Tonight our Contact 4 consumer reporter Emerald Yea tells us about a recent addition to the cultural scene that looks back at the way we were." (...more)
ABC-TV--(Aired 3/22/96) "As Baby Boomers reach middle age, many of the things they grew up with have become museum pieces. For example,(Barbie Dolls, Comic Strips, and)a unique collection of hot heads at the Pez Museum in Burlingame California, just south of San Francisco. There are hundreds of dispensers on display. (...more)
by Benjamin Pimentel. (3/1/96)--"Gary Doss' passion for Pez is best explained by a flyer displayed at the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia - 'You don't have to be a kid to get a kick out of Pez, because you never out-grow your taste for fun.' (...more)
by Michelle Nolan. (2/1/96)--"So much popular culture has been demystified in the past 10 or 20 years, it's hard to find a hobby with a little intrigue left. PEZ collecting, however, retains an element of excitement and mystery all its own. PEZ, you say? (...more)
by Sue Hutchison. (5/22/95) "Last week, I made a pilgrimage to Gary Doss' museum in Burlingame. Unfortunately, when I arrived, electricity was out. But the darkness turned out to be an enhancement. Gary shone a high-beam flashlight over each piece in his collection." (...more)
by Diana Marszalek. (2/3/96) "In the opinion of Gary Doss, PEZ candies and their cartoon-crowned dispensers have secured a spot in American pop culture for one simple reason: People eat 'em up. "It's a toy that dispenses candy,"Doss said. "What could be more happy than that?"' (...more)
by Warren Lutz. (5/17/95) "Should world tensions escalate, nuclear weapons spray across the globe and life cease to exist as we know it, it is certain one bit of Americana is going to make it through. PEZ. "Kids still enjoy them. You still see them in stores, and adults still find them nostalgic," (...more)
by Patt Morrison. (2/16/96)...The nation's only PEZ museum is in Burlingame...
(Aired 2/15/96) KNBR's Morning Show with Frank Dill
(Aired 2/19/96) Alberta Tonight with Lesley Primeau
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