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. Actually, it was a computer store until 18 months ago, when Gary Doss realized that his collection of Pez dispensers was more than a trivial pursuit. It was a way of life. If you step inside the shop, it looks like anything but a museum. In fact, it looks like a gift shop, where every shelf and display rack is stuffed with Pez stuff.
Gift shops are major profit centers at museums.
They're getting bigger and bigger all the time. But this may be the only place where the gift shop is bigger than the museum. In the world of fashionable breath mints like Altoids and Tic Tacs, Pez got there first. All the way back in the 1920s. They were manufactured for adults.