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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDid you have a metal lunch box for school? what cartoon or tv character or design was on it? Mine was Barbie walking a
French Poodle. How about you?
ScoutHikerDad
(101 posts)Mid-70's era
debm55
(61,884 posts)dem4decades
(14,418 posts)debm55
(61,884 posts)JMCKUSICK
(6,642 posts)debm55
(61,884 posts)Morbius
(1,120 posts)I was jealous of those of my classmates who had lunch boxes. We were paper bag folk.
dem4decades
(14,418 posts)sinkingfeeling
(58,075 posts)debm55
(61,884 posts)Tiny Tabby
(73 posts)I think it was outlined in blue
debm55
(61,884 posts)nocoincidences
(2,492 posts)My Father was very frugal, one of those "squeeze the nickel til the buffalo shits" guys.
I am not quite as tight as he was, but only because I have practiced to be more rational about spending.
debm55
(61,884 posts)I had a Lawman lunchbox, with a glass thermos. Lawman was a western on TV during the early 60's. Broke the thermos sometime durning the first year i had it, brown bags after that.
debm55
(61,884 posts)Hey Joe
(825 posts)It was mostly school provided lunches or brown
bagging it.
debm55
(61,884 posts)doc03
(39,195 posts)a Red Ryder book.
debm55
(61,884 posts)SarasotaDem
(231 posts)Howdy Doody
debm55
(61,884 posts)Eugene
(67,345 posts)by Thermos
debm55
(61,884 posts)Coventina
(29,950 posts)
Please note that the thermos in the picture does NOT match the lunchbox.
The lunch box did not come with a thermos.
debm55
(61,884 posts)wnylib
(26,495 posts)We all went home for lunch.
In junior and senior high, we were too old for the cutesy lunch boxes. We carried paper bags or bought lunch at the cafeteria.
debm55
(61,884 posts)underpants
(197,271 posts)debm55
(61,884 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,971 posts)I dropped it and then glass exploded. No milk that day.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,289 posts)It's surprising to me that I can remember that it was metal, but I have absolutely no recollection of the picture. This was in the early to mid-60s.
Goonch
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PufPuf23
(9,967 posts)that re-purposed into a pot stash when in high school.
Got a Summer job and the stash box was back to being a lunch box that my mother would fill with lunch.
One morning my lunch was in a gray plastic workman's lunchbox plus a new metal Stanley thermos.
My mother had given the Quickdraw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound lunchbox to the neighbor daughter. Told me I was too old to have a child's lunchbox.
here is an image search of the same lunchbox:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=quickdraw+mcgraw+and+huckleberry+hound+lunch+box&form=HDRSC3&first=1
vanamonde
(245 posts)Not sure why I selected this design at the age of 6. Perhaps even at that early age, as now, I had no interest in being a walking corporate advertiser.
Now being offered on eBay for $50.

TexasBushwhacker
(21,294 posts)Though many no longer have their Thermos. In mint condition a special one can go for $200 and up.
MoonlightHillFarm
(96 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,852 posts)The sides were the wagon sides.
Alpeduez21
(2,074 posts)The cups always broke but thats cause during recess we played catch or a tackling game using the thermoses.
Aristus
(72,563 posts)I was wildly out of step with the other schoolkids in the 1970's, all of whom had the latest movie/TV series metal lunchboxes. By the time my parents got around to getting me a cheap plastic lunchbox, themed lunchboxes were out of fashion, and all the kids were bringing bagged lunches.
lucca18
(1,471 posts)But, most times I would walk home and have lunch with my mother.
My favorite sandwich was salami with mustard.
AllaN01Bear
(29,830 posts)On the other.
u4ic
(17,137 posts)But most of the time, I ran home so I could watch The Flintstones at noon, then ran back for 1pm.
Fla Dem
(27,792 posts)I think we had an hour to walk home, eat lunch and arrive back at the school. We lived right within the 1 mile rule. 20 Minutes to walk home, 20 minutes to eat lunch and 20 minutes to walk back And no we didn't have a 2nd car so our Mom couldn't drive us. She didn't have a drivers license anyway.