The first Thursday of every month is free admission to the Pez Museum in Burlingame, where you can find over 500 pez dispensers from the past 80 years. The small shop front leads into an overwhelming grotto of Pez merchandise… Pez watches, money boxes, dispensers, T-shirts, cards and Frisbees are all for sale, but the jewel of this museum is the display room with the entire history of pez. The original Pez product, a tin of mints, was produced by the Austrian company in 1927. The first small, rectangular dispensers are uninspiring, and look a bit like lighters. The first character heads were introduced in 1952 — they include Mickey, Casper and Popeye. The rarest Pez in this collection, worth about $5,000 is a Mr Potato Head character, which was taken off the market in 1973 because the small pieces were a choking hazard. The museum also includes World’s Largest Pez Dispenser and in 2004, the museum was expanded to include the Classic Toy Museum which features exhibits of the other great toys from our childhood.