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Hidden History: The delicious history of PEZ

ORANGE–Looney Toons. Mickey and Minnie. Batman and Wonder Woman. Star Wars. We’re talking about PEZ dispensers, and the list goes on, and on and on....
PEZ Visitor Center in Orange

ORANGE--Looney Toons. Mickey and Minnie. Batman and Wonder Woman. Star Wars. We're talking about PEZ dispensers, and the list goes on, and on and on.

On this week's Hidden History, photojournalist Mike Townsend takes us on an adventure to the PEZ factory and visitor's center.

The candy giant was created in 1974 Vienna, Austria in 1927, but the company's U.S. headquarters moved into Orange, Connecticut in 1974.

Now there are collector's editions, plush doll dispensers, and ones that replicate almost every famous character in history.

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