When you were a kid did you have a metal lunch box,, with a small thermos, and a scene from a cartoon or tv series, Who

[debm55]

did you have on the front? I had 101 Dalmatians on the front of mine. I thought it was sharp.

[Squaredeal]

1. Abdolutely

This was a must for the non-hot lunch kids, who didn’t get cooked meals by the cafeteria staff. Invariably, I would drop the box and the thermos lining would break. I’d wait weeks before my parents got me a replacement. The milk never stayed cold and the box got rusty before the end of the school year.

[debm55]

4. I remember those things too. Never got a new thermos after it broke, I bought those little boxes of milk for 5 cents,

[debm55]

7. Who did you have on the box?

[brewens]

2. I remember having a Flintstones lunch box. n/t

[debm55]

6. that was cool.

[brewens]

17. Fred was also my Halloween costume for about three years. My mom would have maybe even have made any costume I

wanted, she was a talented seamstress. Nope. I just wanted to be Fred! LOL

I was in high school in the 70s. I have dance pics wearing sweet leisure suites made by my mom. One is like electric blue with white trim. LOL

[debm55]

27. Sounds like your mom helped you in stepping out in style. How great!

[Freddie]

42. Me too!

I’m sure I had others but that’s the one I remember.

[debm55]

44. Great, Freddie. Flinstones must have been popular that year.

[Dale in Laurel MD]

3. Yes!

Hopalong Cassidy

[debm55]

5. Thank you.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Nope. I had crappy wrinkled paper sacks

They were 100% recycled from the market because my mom was thrifty. I envied the other 'Brown Baggers' because they had neat store bought bags with no wrinkles. I tried ironing my old sack to improve my status, but that 'Purity Store' logo always gave it away.

[debm55]

12. Brother Buzz you need a hug

When my mother had my sister, we stayed at my grandparents" home. My pap wrapped my sandwich in newspaper, gave me a brown banana and gave me a similar type of bag. That memory I will never forget. Looking back it was funny though.

[CMYK]

155. Me, too

Crappy wrinkled paper bags, and when it rained (Seattle, mind you), we put plastic bread bags over our shoes while walking to school. (They usually didn't last the duration, but my mom (of six) kept trying to protect our shoes.

[Dave in VA]

9. Zorro!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nlub6LXbK6M

Couldn't find a picture, so this is a video of the exact one!

1959 or 60, can't for sure remeber.

[debm55]

13. Wow. tthat is a neat box, Thank you for finding.

[surrealAmerican]

10. No lunchbox ...

... (I usually bought school lunch), but I did have a thermos for when I brought lunch - with Snoopy and Woodstock!

[debm55]

14. Later in JH and SH I had a had with a butterfly thermos.

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[MiHale]

11. Yes I did what was on it don't remember...

But Deb lately your posts remind me of all the stuff that always got me in trouble. 😈

Yes lunch boxes got me in trouble … my sister’s head still has the dent in it! 😂😂😂

[debm55]

15. So sorry MiHale. You and your sister need a hug

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[MiHale]

16. We're fine one of my best friends

[debm55]

18. That's good.

[woodsprite]

135. Ouch! I still have mom's brass ashtray I whacked my brother with. nt

[Alpeduez21]

19. Never had a lunch box till my forties

Brown bagged it in school. Had a thermos with the cup. The cup broke cause those thermoses made a good football. Used to be a fat Albert one but the image faded so I had a red one, basically.

Got the lunchbox as an adult for in my work van. Always cheaper to pack than buy

[debm55]

23. Thank you for the backstory on your thermos. LOL When I taught each teacher brought in a salad item and we made

communal salads. It was cheaper and better than the lunches from around the area.

[dobleremolque]

20. Tom Corbett and the Space Cadets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Corbett,_Space_Cadet

[debm55]

24. Thank you, dobleremolque.

[SWBTATTReg]

21. Ha hah ha. I have all of them, the metal lunchboxes (plus some odd plastic ones), plus most of the thermos.

My big collectible is Disney, but as a result of a seller years back not breaking up his lunchbox collection to sell me his Disney boxes only, I ended up w/ all of his lunchboxes. They are an investment only, and a pleasurable one at that.

[debm55]

25. My friend has a ton of metal lunch boxes. His garage is full of stuff. Enjoy yourself--it's something you enjoy.

[Aristus]

22. Nope.

My parents thought that kind of thing was frivolous and a waste of money. All my friends got the cool TV and movie lunch boxes. I got the crappy, nerdy Tupperware lunch box. By the time my parents relented and bought me a Star Wars lunchbox, the cool kids were all brown-bagging their lunches.

Story of my life.

[debm55]

26. Sorry Aristus, you need a hug.

[AllaN01Bear]

28. batman. 1960s batman

[debm55]

46. Thank you AllaN01Bear . Did it have the words like BAM, SPLAT, etc on it?

[JoseBalow]

29. I had this exact Snoopy lunchbox

The thermos fit perfectly into the lid with like a wire clip.

[debm55]

32. How neat I know about the thermos in the lid. NO more flattened sandwiches.

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[gay texan]

30. I had several

Peanuts, the dukes of hazzard, and the fall guy

[debm55]

35. Wow, my friend right now has a dukes of Hazzard lunch box. I see what you can sell it for.

[Eugene]

31. Thermos Yellow Submarine around 1969

used it for years

[debm55]

37. That's neat and it would have been fun carrying it around.

[yorkster]

33. Roy Rogers..

Had a cowgirl getup. All set for the wilds north of Boston.

Felt pretty bad when I started to learn the real story, needless to say.

[debm55]

38. Sorry yorkster. You need a hug-------------

[EYESORE 9001]

34. Lunchboxes weren't a thing in my elementary school

Everyone ate in the school cafeteria. I woulda used a Roy Rogers lunchbox.

[debm55]

40. It was split three ways. buyers, brown baggers and lunch boxers.

[Sneederbunk]

36. A paper bag.

[Deuxcents]

39. My sister and I brown bagged it..always bringing home the bag for the next day.

We had milk money and that was it!

[debm55]

47. I JH and SH I bagged it , Since I packed my own lunch, I would just put a sandwich in a sandwich bag and carry in my

purse. 10 cents for milk

[EverHopeful]

41. Year after year I wanted, and FINALLY got. . .

A plaid lunchbox. That lunchbox with matching thermos made me so happy.

Eventually I was also lucky enough to get a plaid book bag.

[debm55]

48. You were royalty--a matching plaid lunchbox and book bag.

[Permanut]

43. The Lone Ranger!

Also had a matching pair of Lone Ranger cap guns with the white handles.

[debm55]

50. Permanut, that was great, and the matching Lone Ranger cap guns.

[WestMichRad]

45. I just had a plain black lunchbox

and an equally dull thermos. But I had a Charlie Brown wastebasket, which I still have and use!

[debm55]

51. That's cool, All my stuff rusted.

[sinkingfeeling]

49. I had Davey Crockett on the one I had in first grade.

[debm55]

55. thank you singingfeeling . First grade is hard and having something from home makes it easier for the transition, First

and Second Grades were the only two grades that I didn't teach. But when I had the Kinders I let them bring a stuffed animal in class, and let them have there on a table until they were ready to part with them.

[kimbutgar]

52. I had a Batman one!

[debm55]

56. Thank you, kimbutgar. Was it the campy 60s version?

[kimbutgar]

71. Yes

I was was visiting my Grandmother in Chicago for the summer and when I talked to my Dad I told him I wanted a Batman lunchbox. When I got home the lunch box was sitting in my bed, I reading screaming with joy and seeing my Dad grin ear to ear. It’s a memory I had forgotten until I answered your question. My Dad was the one who brought me blue jeans when my Mother said nice girls don’t wear jeans, But Dad took me to Sears and let me pick out a pair!

[debm55]

78. You were lucky to have a dad to pick up the slack , My mother was like yours but my dad didn.t pick up the slack

I;m glad this post brought back good memories for you

[Diamond_Dog]

53. I had a Beatles lunch box!

And my mom eventually THREW IT AWAY!!

[debm55]

57. Was it rusted? I know that I don;t have to tell you but it could be worth a pretty penny today.

[Diamond_Dog]

58. I'm not entirely sure but I think it was plastic.

She threw away my sister’s and my Beatles magazines and board game, too! Arg. Yes I’d imagine those things would be worth some money today! At least my sister saved the 45’s. We used to keep those in a square box with a handle that was made for storing 45’s. I Want To Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Love Me Do, etc.

[debm55]

84. You got to keep the 45s. You are lucky you still have them. I guess at the time we did''t know that they would be

popular. Sometimes I look at e=Bay and think==didn't these kids play with these toys?

[Ocelot II]

54. I vaguely remember having a lunch box and matching thermos

that was just red plaid, with no cartoon or tv characters. I think most of those lunch boxes started coming out in the early '60s, by which time I was in middle school, getting cafeteria lunches and too old for a cartoon lunchbox.

[debm55]

60. I started school in 1960, Tell you a story. One day I had my crayons in a brown paper bag. I put them on the table after

I colored and went to get dressed and make myself breakfast. I was running late for the walk across town. I grabbed i saw. Mind you I am 5 when I looked in the bag at lunch I see that I have a bag of crayons instead of my PBJ sandwich I made the night before. As a result of my absent mindedness I was given a 101 Dalmation lunchbox.PS the nuns made me a sandwich. in the convent.

[Ocelot II]

62. Some kids would have just eaten the crayons.

That was nice of the nun to make a sandwich for you - I've only ever heard horror stories about mean nuns in schools. Obviously they can't all have been mean.

[debm55]

85. Most were. I had a young one that played the folk guitar in class. played kickball with us.Etc. I always felt she was

raw deal as there were 60 kids in my classroom(Baby Boomer) Two years latter she left the convent and returned to Detroit and taught in a city school. No longer a nun. I will aways remember her name--Sister Noel.

[ProfessorGAC]

59. Yes, But Don't Recall What

First, I was notorious for dropping that thermos & breaking the glass as a little kid. And, that was before they had the screw-in replacements.
Second, the boxes were pieces of junk, so I needed a new one every year.
Third, by the time is in 5th grade, lunchboxes were uncool, so practically everyone went brown bag.
I honestly have no recollection of what kind I had.

[debm55]

63. Thank you ProfessorGAC I know I had others as my godmother would buy them for me. But the first one was a delight.

[LeftInTX]

144. We had to leave the thermos at home.

We always bought milk.

However one day, I got in a fight with my friend. She had a vinyl Barbie lunch box, I had an ugly plain metal lunch pail. My friend hit me on the head with her Barbie lunch box, I hit her back with my metal one. I got in big trouble.


For some reason, I think my lunch box may have had a thermos in it that day.

I got in trouble because my mom said that it wasn't a fair fight. How would I know?

[debm55]

159. Sorry LeftinTX you need a hug

[LeftInTX]

165. Ah Thx

[GreenWave]

61. I think this is it:

[debm55]

64. That;s neat, I always wondered how they kept in such good condition. PS what is the dog's name?

[GreenWave]

65. That image was from the Internet. Mine got scratched up.

I am going to guess the dog was Scout. (Missed it! It was Bullet! Alexa offered dog jokes!!)

For sure:
Horse Trigger. Jeep Nellie Bell and the sidekick Pat Brady

[debm55]

87. Did you have that in your memory or did Alexa help you out?

[GreenWave]

140. I am embarrassedI missed the dog.

I knew all the rest. I can't say right now why, lest I reveal a secret.

[debm55]

141. That's okay,

[yellowdogintexas]

70. Bullet was the dog. Dale's horse was Buttermilk. nt

[debm55]

88. All I remember is his wife Dale Evans, Thank you for the information.

[Mousetoescamper]

66. A school bus with Disney characters

Even after my mother washed the box, it smelled of PB&J and Wonder bread. A distinct olfactory memory. I don't remember having the thermos. It must have been broken early on. I bought cartons of milk at school. On Fridays we could buy chocolate milk! Fridays were also spaghetti day--orange colored sauce, thick slices of French bread with "oleo" and a salad which I never ate.

[debm55]

94. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I love your post. I remember chocolate milk day. and it was the same price.!!!!!!! Your

description of the spaghetti day is spot on, "oleo" love it. I haven;t heard it called that in years. Thank you mousetoescamper. you made me happy.

[RVN VET71]

67. I want to say Marilyn Monroe -- first Playboy centerfold -- but I can't

Actually, I think it was Roy Rogers and Trigger. Had it been Marilyn, I think the nuns would have destroyed it -- and me -- the first day I brought it to school.

[debm55]

95. Catholic school kid here too. This is a little off topic, but do remember when the boys were not allowed to read Nationa

Geographic? I always thought--why did you order them if half the school population. The boys might see "breasts"

[RVN VET71]

121. No, I think my school did not have Nat Geo in library

But I did come very close to getting expelled for bringing a mad magazine into school and reading it in church during our required "confession" with the local pedophile. The principal of the school told Mom that I'd been caught with a dirty, filthy magazine (her words) and she would have to speak with my father before deciding if I could remain a student!

Dad, bless him, played the interview straight and promised the old crone, anger in his face (at me!) that he would see to it that it never happened again. He came home laughing and said he thought I'd taken one of his Playboy stash!

[debm55]

127. hahahahahaaha;That is so funny, Love it

[BluesRunTheGame]

68. Dick Tracy

[debm55]

96. Great! Question for you--why is Dick Tracy picking his nose? That isn't your lunchbox. How do people keep them in such

perfect condition????

[BluesRunTheGame]

102. My old lunch box is long gone.

That’s a picture I stole from the internet.

And he’s not picking his nose. He’s talking into his wrist watch radio, Technology that we have today was predicted on my grade school lunch box. I’m still waiting for the flying trash cans.

[debm55]

105. I'm sorry. I was just joking with you. I still wait for the Jetson's flying car.

[Bristlecone]

69. I had one that was a barn

It went off a pier once when my dad and I were fishing. After that, maybe a GI Joe or something.

[debm55]

97. Oh , I love it, Really do. You can see where the thermos went. Thank you

[nuxvomica]

119. That's the one I had

The thermos was grain silo.

[debm55]

128. That is really neat Thank you

[EverHopeful]

120. Wow! I had totally forgotten that one.

Can't remember who had it. Possibly a cousin since I don't remember it being in our house.

Thanks for the memory.

[OldBaldy1701E]

122. I remember that one.

Mine was a mailbox, like the ones on the street. Its was white and blue with a red flag on it. The thermos fit inside the lid. I had it for a long time until it was stolen when I was in the 5th grade. When I was in the 8th grade, our class was decorating the classroom for a teacher's birthday, and I lifted one of the drop ceiling tiles to wedge some streamers in the crack. And... there was my mailbox lunchbox. Whomever took it must have been an 8th grader since the school (K-12) only had two homerooms for each grade and the 'middle school' ones were stand-alone trailers. There was really no way for anyone else to have been in one long enough to hide my box without being there on a regular basis. Anyway, I got it back, and gave it to my little brother, who promptly lost it within two weeks.

Sigh.

[debm55]

179. OldBaldy1701E what a great post, Why would someone be mean to do that.? I am sorry that you;lost it but happy it was

found.

[yellowdogintexas]

72. I had one of those square ones. I can't quite remember how it was decorated but

I think it was a Disney character. Since I started school in 1954 I am guessing Alice in Wonderland.
However I had a real thing for Robin Hood so it could have been that one

It is possible I went through maybe 2 of them. The thermos either broke or someone forgot to rinse out whatever I took in it which made for a nasty mess.

[debm55]

99. Thank you yellowdogintexas.I started school in 1960 so mine was a Disney film feature, There were alot of them.

[Beausoleil]

73. No cartoon or TV character

I had a USS Seawolf lunchbox.

You can get a vintage 1960 version on Ebay.

[debm55]

103. Oh wow, that is actually beautiful. I would have been afraid someone would have stolen it. TY

[Beausoleil]

157. I was at a pretty tame suburban Catholic school

I don't remember what happened to that lunchbox or if I had another before I went brown-bagging.

But I definitely remember that one.

[debm55]

160. Thank you Beausoleil

[GuppyGal]

74. I had Peanuts ....I was able to buy a replica from Hallmark one year and it comes with the thermos too ...

so cute!!!! And of course nostalgic !!!

[debm55]

106. Oh, I missed that. It had to be recently as no one was allowed to use the image because of copyright laws. Disney used

be the same. Glad you found one, Sorry I didn;t. Thank you.

[GuppyGal]

142. I bought this a long time ago...at least 15 years maybe ...but they are on ebay...here is a link

https://www.ebay.com/itm/385241370519?epid=1201479255&hash=item59b22ccf97:g GwAAOSwvZpi1~5z&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAABAGj6TE02gXCXYCPGjjngI074Nic6wsMZtZCrDnN0Nx1BbRtvaomLpH0Ww3rn45pTzQpB3O0v2z7vhTRd27mnnn%2FY6AjaK1NmpWpwAnr1KxQiWVrxIiSknRS%2B7CF%2FAoakxr8Uw7djJoloJK2gUB8hwUxwTl1sZZlAziBYZsTz70350nMKrAv7pMfsN8wqrsFvcGLvAicaUTRhu1u9CtWOt4n57an7eglQIf%2FRBDKWqjasOG%2FxS5NB%2F14nOwJvZvqJJPISFoRpq%2BUr2beU1LnUPI%2F%2BLorXZxS%2BWGY%2FpkMft6m1RZEFFgXv9VUKJqnAhSeN%2BYa9tSCnGu2aEWLq21yw5XA%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8ys37qpYw


Looks like there are quite a few ....but I'm not sure they all still have their thermos

[debm55]

143. Thank youGuppy Gal

[Mr.Bill]

75. In hindsight I can see our blue collar income

meant not a lot of brand name stuff in our house. My dad even drank cheap beer. But I did have a lunch box with a generic spaceman theme. It had a thermos that had fins on it like a rocket ship. I was really facinated with the whole space program, so I was quite happy with that lunch box. I used to dream I would be the first man to walk on Mars, but now it looks like I was born about a hundred years too soon.

[debm55]

107. What a nice story Mr. Bill. I like the fins on the thermos. And the dreams as dreams go, would have you walking on Mars

with you lunch box. I have weird dreams too.

[claudette]

76. Fortunately

During 8 years of attending elementary school in a big city, my sisters and I went home for lunch that our mother prepared. We lived very close to the school. And, in high school, of course no cartoon lunch boxes. 😊 We used good old fashioned paper bags!

[debm55]

81. I think that was the same in almost all the SH school. I don't know or can remember anyone with a lunch box. But looking

it would have been a campy and a great FY to some of the kids in my HS.

[claudette]

145. Yep!

😊

[GP6971]

77. Metal Roy Rogers box

with Thermos.

[debm55]

79. GP6971, Roy Rogers seems to be popular among the guys.TY

[3catwoman3]

80. I did, but I have no recollection of what it looked like.

This would have been in grades 3-5.

It did have a Thermos bottle, and my main recollection of that is my mom filling it with cream of vegetable soup one day. I hated cream of vegetable soup, and really, really wanted to just dump it in the trash can, but I was afraid my mom would somehow know if I did that and I'd be in trouble. So, I forced it down even though it made me feel like vomiting.

[debm55]

83. I am so sorry for you 3catwoman3. Did you tell her you would like a different kind for variety ? My mom used to make

cream of carrot soup, I hated it. I don't know if I could have eaten it everyday. So sorry you had to the rest of the day with an upset stomach. I would have emptied in the bathroom stall,

[3catwoman3]

90. Dissenting opinions were not encouraged in our family, on almost...

…any topic, so I do not remember offering any complaints. You may remember my story about frozen egg salad sandwiches.

Here’s another food story. When she was a little girl and didn’t feel well, her mother used to make her something she called milk toast - a piece of toasted white bread with butter and sugar, in a bowl, with warm milk poured over it. She loved it then, and into adulthood. Apparently it made her feel better, so she was sure it would make me feel better, too, and insisted I eat it, even tho I found it to be a soggy disgusting mess that made me feel worse. I couldn’t understand why my opinion was not given any credence in terms of something as benign as whether or not you liked a food.

My mom did NOT like being disagreed with. I think she took it as a form of personal rejection.

[debm55]

93. Same here. I had milk toast too. it was a soggy connection. Also hated the soft boiled eggs.too. But would get a punch

face if I said anything. I know what you are going through. I still carry the scares. Have not not talked to my mother since my dad's funeral. She called me up to thank me the birthday card the January 2. Even though I set up the funeral and she asked me to put a rosary in my dad's hand. She screamed at me the day before the funeral that she did'nt want it in there. and her and my sister and a circle of relatives were laughing about the Jewish nose my father and me had and our physical build. She denied both as did my sister and told me I was hallucinating about those things. from the meds my doctor gives me. The ace in card, I had was she was late and I made a heart card for my dad and put it in his coffin. She went into a rage. Called my adopted son a Bastard. before she got to my husband . I hung up. During the summer her and my sister thought she had cancer. I asked for prayers here on DU. She never did but is still using the story. I drove 20 miles each way everyday to take her or my mom to hospital. Sat for scope for six hours and had a can of ginger ale thrown at me and cookies spit at me. and another 16 hrs for the operation while my back was killing me. Today I sit here with a bulge on my spine. Have to do more tests.I do want to tell you there is a Support Forum on DU to help you talk it out, I also see a physiologist and shrink. I do take meds to help me sleep. I sometimes read some of the messages here and wish I had a family like that.The fact is -I didn't and you need to realize it was NOT your fault. The best thing that came out of the funeral was my cousin validation that our cousin sexual abused us when giving us a bath every Saturday. I always thought it was a custom but it was abuse. I have not talked to my mother since Jan 2. and I have no reason to call. After 68 years, I no longer crave her love. You are free to use the site here, the people are warm and friendly and make an appointment for yourself to talk to someone. If you want to email me feel free and remember you are loved. Love, Debbie.

[Duncanpup]

82. Starsky and Hutch and Space 1999

[debm55]

91. Oh my, Starsky and Hutch. and Space 1999, Did it have the matching thermos??

[Duncanpup]

118. Can't remember

[debm55]

136. Did you buy your milk? If so thermos broke along the way. The kids in my room dogpiled theirs on top of mine.

[Duncanpup]

139. Awww

[pansypoo53219]

86. somehow i got a fucking red plaid one. but then i thought most teevee stupid. except bug bunny.

pre-teen crush. the professor on gilligans island, tho stupid show.

[debm55]

89. Thank you, pansypoo53219

[LeftInTX]

146. I had that one too. I didn't like it.

I don't know why I got stuck with it either, except we didn't have English TV in Japan, so my mom was familiar with all the characters and bought me that neutral lunch pail. (We had just moved from Japan to the US) In Japan, I always ate lunch at home.

[pansypoo53219]

175. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! ick poo ack ack.

have to ask bro what he got.

[debm55]

180. That's a classy look with the plaid.

[LudwigPastorius]

92. Batman!

I wish I still had it. They're going for 400 to 600 bucks on Ebay now.



It either got broken or stolen. I don't remember, but it was replaced with this.



I don't know why my mom got this one, it's not like I wanted to be a postman. It must have been on sale. I really didn't like it at all. I remember eating many a cold hamburger or peanut butter sandwich out of it.

[debm55]

101. Hey, I like the Postman one. and the little stick figure person on the side., I would keep if you still have , It is

a collectable. The top one needs some campy stickers added to it, Otherwise great. TY

[LeftInTX]

112. I bet zippy was free from the post office!

They really, really, really, promoted the new zip code. It was everywhere.

[LudwigPastorius]

114. LOL!

You may be right. The post office was just so many levels down in “coolness” from Batman, it bummed me out.

[debm55]

130. I would have really have likrd to have had one, Great to keep crayons, crayons in, etc,

[Runningdawg]

98. No thermos, milk and coffee were free - Dark Shadows

Yes, we could drink coffee as soon as we entered HS with a note from our parents.

[debm55]

100. We were told coffee would stunt our growth. Brown bagger/sandwich baggie for me. TY

[Runningdawg]

158. There were a lot of Native kids in my school, most of us were drinking coffee in grade school. I'm 5'10

[debm55]

161. Yes, they were wrong.

[lapfog_1]

104. Man from U.N.C.L.E.

I wanted so bad to be Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum)



Hard to imagine that he was once married to the same woman ( Jill Ireland ) as Charles Bronson.

He dies last year and a bit of my childhood died with him.

[debm55]

109. I agree with, Loved that show, . Miss you Ducky. They had the Girl from Uncle.No way as good

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

108. Yes

[LeftInTX]

110. I had an ugly metal plaid lunchbox

[Archae]

168. Me too!

[debm55]

181. I think it's classy,

[dlilafae]

111. I did have one, debm55... 😄

... and I kept breaking the glass part (of the inside) of the thermos. I can still recall the sound it made... Can't remember if I had the Flintstones one, Peanuts, or what?!

[debm55]

132. Thank you dilafae, Yes that :oh shit noise,

[KT2000]

113. Red plaid!

thought it was classy.

[debm55]

126. KT2000--Yes, very classy. Thank you.

[happybird]

115. The Smurfs

With a yellow thermos

[debm55]

125. Happybird- the Smurfs sound wild and with the yellow thermos. Thank you,

[Bev54]

116. Had the lunch box and the thermos but no scenes from cartoons or tv. I think I am too old.

[debm55]

124. Thank you Bev54.

[Demovictory9]

117. By 1967, the lunchpail was vinyl with snap closing like this one

I had a white vinyl one with cartoon character on it

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394811551092

[debm55]

123. Thank you, Demovictory9, it does make sense as the vinyl ones were rusting, and falling apart. Vinyl was easy to clean

and cheap. but 450 dollars for one on e-bay -WOW,

[Glorfindel]

129. Yes. Howdy Doody on the front of mine.

We're talking early 1950's here.

[debm55]

131. I missed that time period But it sounds cool.

[woodsprite]

133. Mine were Julia, Emergency, The Partridge Family

Donnie Osmond, and Josie and the Pussycats. My mom would get me a new one each year as part of “back to school” shopping.

[debm55]

134. That's neat, liked that 5 character boxes. You were lucky.

[mentalsolstice]

137. 1. Mary Poppins 2. The Flying Nun

I guess I liked women who flew.

[debm55]

138. Oh I wished I had a Mary Poppins lunch box

[malthaussen]

147. In first grade, yeah.

It had pictures of the NY Giants football team on it. Not sure why, I was a Baltimore fan then. (Johnny U days). Didn't last long, like most people I broke the thermos pretty quickly.

-- Mal

[debm55]

151. Maybe that;s all they had at the store

[Different Drummer]

148. I had a plain black metal lunchbox with a thermos that I chose.

I was never a kid when I was a kid. If I had it to do over again, I would have picked a cartoon or movie-character lunchbox.

[debm55]

149. Were you going for the sophisticated look?

[Different Drummer]

150. I thought of myself as a miniature adult.

I knew adults didn't use those cartoon/tv show/movie character lunchboxes, so I didn't want one.

[debm55]

152. Oh I understand

[SarahD]

153. Snow White.

My parents hoped I would grow up to be Snow White, but I was never keen on dwarves.

[debm55]

162. That is funny,

[applegrove]

154. I brown bagged it but spent some time in the dumpster

as I mistakenly threw my retainer out. My mom drove me to school at 7PM.. she helped me into the dumpster and I searched and found it.

[debm55]

163. Yuk, Did you boil it to sanitize it?

[applegrove]

166. I must have done something like that. It was still in the plastic bag (probably

a recycled bread bag because my mom recycled bags (even milk bags) and the bread bags were the perfect size for a sandwhich). I salute my mom for putting me in the dumpster. A good way to make me learn. I was so absent minded..... always daydreaming.

[debm55]

167. Thank you, applegrove

[LeftInTX]

170. I wore mine when I ate. One of my friends has two false front teeth. They are attached to a retainer

I have a retainer again, but I for the life of me, I can't eat or even talk with the thing in my mouth!

[applegrove]

171. I was eight. It was a good lesson. Thank god I didn't need braces.

I don't know how people keep those clean.

[kentuck]

156. Hopalong Cassidy

But I wanted Roy Rogers.

[debm55]

164. So sorry, You need a hug

[Archae]

169. I have one now, a friend gave it to me, it's a small "Zootopia" lunchbox, it has a a puzzle inside.

[debm55]

173. That's neat. I remember Zootopia. Thank you

[dameatball]

172. Mine was plaid and not very cool.

[debm55]

174. Sorry, you need a hug

[GoodRaisin]

176. I always had school lunch tickets.

Mom wasn’t big on making lunches. It was okay, I enjoyed the hot meals.

[debm55]

183. Thank you Good Raisin.

[Chainfire]

177. I never took a lunch to school.

We had a "lunch room" that served hot, made on sight meals, prepared by cooks hired from the neighborhood. If I am remembering correctly, in the 60s lunch was $.20. I do remember that half pints of milk were $.02. You could drink a lot of milk for a dime.

[debm55]

178. Wow, you had actual cooks. I bet your lunches were good, Ty,

[Chainfire]

182. At the time, we didn't think so, but looking back, yes, they were good meals, served fresh.

Like the little rug-rats we were, we called the lunch room, "Hoffmans Slop Shop" for the woman headed the staff. It is one of the things that I am still ashamed of. At our school, there were kids who could not afford the $.20 a day, the school would "hire" them to work in the serving line for their dinners, and they were able to take leftovers home with them. It was different times.

I have, more recently, been in some local schools were lunch was prepared for all the schools in the same location and it looked like prison or hospital food, served cold and stale. It is no damn wonder kids get fast food or convenient store lunch if they can.

[debm55]

184. That's very true. I worked as a teacher for 43 years and noticed the changed to a more processed food that mom

volunteers would put together. between talking on the iphone. and socializing with the other moms. It was something to see that there own kids brought their lunch.This was during the last years I taught.

[Onthefly]

185. The Man from UNCLE. Thermos broke the first day!

[debm55]

186. So sorry. Onthefly. That happened to me too, though not on the first day. Did you still use your lunch box? and just buy

milk?

[Onthefly]

187. Yes. Bought milk at 3 cents,1/2 pint carton.

[debm55]

188. Yep, when mine broke I just bought mild in the little containers. but sometimes I would pack soup. I couldn't do that

anymore.

[dai13sy]

189. Cool metal lunchbox

I had one with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and their horses, Trigger and Buttermilk

[debm55]

190. I Loved them TY dai13sy

[sakabatou]

191. Plastic lunch box and thermos with the TMNT 2 film on the front

I think it was... this one:

[debm55]

192. That's cool, I like it, TY sakabatou.