Pez dispenser exhibit opens at Welwood Murray Memorial Library in Palm Springs
City News Service
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – A colorful collection of vintage and modern Pez dispensers was on display today at the Welwood Murray Memorial Library in Palm Springs, giving visitors a free look at the quirky candy’s history and pop culture appeal.
The display can be seen during library hours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Sunday at 100 S. Palm Canyon Drive, with extended hours on Thursdays until 8 p.m.
It will be available for about six weeks and features a curated collection of Pez dispensers from a part-time Palm Springs resident. Don Yager has collected the dispensers for roughly a decade.
Pez started in Austria in 1927 as a peppermint breath mint for adults and was marketed as an anti-smoking tool using simple, lighter-shaped dispensers, library officials said.
It was transformed in the United States in the 1950s into a popular children’s candy and collector’s item.
The Welwood Murray Library is a branch of the Palm Springs Public Library.
More information can be found by calling the Palm Springs Library at 760-322-7323.