Considering what passed for children’s fashion in the 1970s when I started elementary school—patterned polyester pants with coordinating turtlenecks—it’s no surprise that picking out new clothes was not my favorite part of back-to-school shopping.

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Richard Strauss / SI.Lisa Bramen was a frequent contributor to Smithsonian.com's Food and Think blog. Find great deals on eBay for metal lunch box and vintage metal lunch box. Their last one was a 1985 steel lunch box with a Rambo design, which is big with collectors. From shop BarnboardAntiques. $38.13 $ 38. In 1999, a "1954 Superman lunch box, made by Adco Liberty" was "gaveled down for $11,500" ("the hightest auction price ever paid for a lunch box").In the United States, the lunch box or lunch pail has been used as a symbol of the working class. World's leading marketplace. Make Offer - Vintage Metal Lunchbox-1970’s Road Runner With Metal Thermos! In Popular Culture. Retro Lunch Boxes Lunch Box Thermos Cool Lunch Boxes Metal Lunch Box Metal Box Batman Y Robin Batman 2 School Lunch Box Vintage Tins 23 Old Vintage Lunch Boxes - vintagetopia The notion is to become creative and show the recipients that you are thinking about them. Skip to main content.

Some had originally been made to hold lard. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about 1960s lunch boxes? Harold Dorwin / SI.“Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Aladdin Industries, 1974.

Advantages of a metal lunch box were the durability.

Many vintage lunch boxes came with a matching thermos that would hold a drink hot or cold for hours.Men would carry plain heavy duty lunch boxes like the one pictured above to work whether they worked in a factory, in construction, or in an office. Harold Dorwin / SI.“Knight Rider” by Thermos, 1981. Some of these designs were colorful, while others were just a texture pressed into the metal.Although there were fewer cartoons on TVs in the 1940s – 1960s, and fewer television stations, the cartoons that played were highly popular.Rocky and Bullwinkle were huge favorites, and have become highly collectible today. $7.50 13h 23m +$14.90 shipping.

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A tobacco box was recycled as lunch box. Retro Lunch Boxes Lunch Box Thermos Cool Lunch Boxes Metal Lunch Box Star Trek Toys Star Wars Star Trek Party Boite A Lunch School Lunch Box vintagelunchboxarchive Image archive of Lunch Boxes from the 1960s & 1970s.

Make Offer - Mickey Mouse Club Vintage Lunch Box with Thermos Walt Disney 1960s. Price and other details may vary based on size and colorStanley Classic 10qt Lunch Box – Large Insulated Lunchbox - Fits Meals, Containers, Thermos - Easy to Carry, Built to LastThe Tin Box Company 344707-DS Star Wars Vintage Classic Tin Lunchbox, BlackFREE Shipping on your first order shipped by AmazonAquarius Fender Amp Large Gen 2 Tin Storage Fun Box,Multi-colored,3"FREE Shipping on your first order shipped by AmazonFREE Shipping on your first order shipped by AmazonThe Tin Box Company 354707-DS The Tin Box Novelty Large Tin Lunchbox, and White Featuring Han-Gry Art, BlackFREE Shipping on your first order shipped by AmazonSmithsonian - Rosie The Riveter - We Can Do It!

Richard Strauss / SI.“Woody Woodpecker” by Aladdin Industries, 1971. However, metal lunch boxes are still produced, just not as popular as they were in the 1960 through 1980's. I think that they were just too unwieldy and too heavy for children to carry.

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Vintage 1965 Fess Parker Daniel Boone Show metal lunch box Cowboy No Thermos Old.

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FREE Shipping by Amazon. Photo courtesy of Flickr user fortinbras.“Gunsmoke” by Aladdin Industries, 1959. Aladdin stopped making lunch boxes altogether in 1998, though Thermos continues to make them.“Barbie” by Thermos L.L.C., 1962. Make Offer - Vintage 1965 Fess Parker Daniel Boone Show metal lunch box Cowboy No Thermos Old. The graphics on … 1967. It had to last all year, if not longer, and it was a personal billboard, much like the concert T-shirt was to older kids, that would tell my classmates what I was into. Because of the popularity of those shows Baby Boomers flocked to the store to purchase new school lunch boxes decorated with their favorite TV show. Richard Strauss / SIThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has a sampling of images online from its “The Beatles” by Aladdin Industries, 1965; “Yellow Submarine” by Thermos L.L.C., 1968; “Psychadelic” by Aladdin Industries, 1969. Stanley Classic 10qt Lunch Box – Large Insulated Lunchbox - Fits Meals, Containers, Thermos - Easy to Carry, Built to Last . You have to be a bit careful about buying metal lunch boxes, though, because there have been re-releases from new manufacturers. Generic designs covered many lunch boxes during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Check out our metal lunch box selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our lunch bags & boxes shops.

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