What's Your Lunch Box Memory?
Do you remember your favorite lunch box? Today's kids have as many options as ever but nothing will take the place of the Partridge Family or Scooby-Doo.
Lunch boxes have changed in design and shape over the years, but the basic idea is the same. Along with space inside for a cold drink, sandwich and snack, the cover is devoted to a favorite cartoon, character, TV show or movie.
That's why Justin Bieber and Darth Vader and Japanese cartoon characters are staring out at shoppers from the shelves of Target.
Do you remember a favorite lunch box? What was it? Have a picture handy? Share it here!
Back in the '70s, the lunch boxes were aluminum. In the '80s, they gave way to plastic. Vintage lunch boxes now are highly collectible. They are displayed as collections in people's homes, and sometimes they get their own art gallery shows.
How did you roll in grade school, brown bag or a lunch box? Leave a comment.
stephen m. burgess
7:22 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
My brother had The Man from U.N.C.L.E. lunch box in the late 60’s. I guess mom bought whatever was available at the Thriftway on Easton Road in Roslyn. It was in next to the Mimsy card shop and Girard Bank. That whole strip is long gone but some of the original brick walls from the Willow Grove lanes are still intact and visible at the sporting goods store up the street.
Joe Hart
10:37 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
I had an Incredible Hulk lunch box. I loved that thing.
dave gott
10:58 am on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Nice question! I walked and later biked home for lunch in the fifties, so I missed out on packing my own until junior high. By then we had other things on our mind during those 28 minutes!
John cope
4:48 pm on Thursday, August 16, 2012
Same here Dave. When I moved on to Jr and Sr High they wouldn't let you out so I brown bagged or bought food in the cafateria. What a change from Lenape ( real cooked lunches) to CB (individuaaly wrapped cherry pies and cheese sandwiches on white bread, w or w/o butter - your choice).
sam
12:31 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
kung fu lunch box with david carradine!!! awesome
Mark Glidden
2:53 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
No question about it. James Bond lunchbox
AidanJ
4:27 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Dukes of Hazard.
Jesseka Kadylak
5:09 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
I had sooo many lunch boxes growing up. So many that I would change them out daily. But I do remember when I used the newer (at that time) plastic models, I would pretend that it was a little TV and make the characters talk and sing. I had a big imagination.
My two favorites were my Pink Floyd and my Yellow Submarine metal lunch boxes, though.
woodsy
7:34 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Donnie and Marie was a favorite. I vividly recall my knees banging against it as I'd swing my legs forward and back on the bus (because they didn't touch the ground). and I remember sitting at a murphy table right next to a girl who had a very rusty Chitty Chitty Bang Bang one. I couldn't fathom how she could stomach eating food that touched the rusting and peeling paint. I'd fixate on that and lose my appetite. Before that, my mom bought me to a Tupperware set that my little fingers could barely open. With all of those containers inside of containers inside a lid that had a snapping strap my lunch was sealed up like Fort Knox. But I was so excited to seal it just the way they showed me at the tupperware parties, "first base...second base...third base...all the way to home plate!"
Jeff Lugar
8:48 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
You can find vintage originals at Love Saves the Day right at the start of the New Hope shopping district, catty-corner from the Starbucks
GreatestCollectibles
5:33 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012
I like old lunch boxes too and built a price guide for them here http://www.greatestcollectibles.com/lunch-box-price-guide/ hope it helps.
thanks