What kind of Lunch Box did you have as a kid?

[kick-ass-bob]

I had Scooby Doo...
the hard metal one, too.

[redqueen]

1. Bee Gees

I am so ashamed to admit that, but ... there it is.

[ET Awful]

2. Charlie Brown is the only one I remember

Yup, the old metal one. There were others I'm sure, but that's the only one I recall. It was bright red and had Peanuts cartoons all over it.

I miss my lunchbox.

[Lavender Brown]

20. I had the same one

I saw a reproduction of it in a Hallmark recently for like $25.

[ET Awful]

28. YAY! I wasn't the only one :)

I miss my thermos too :)

[kick-ass-bob]

30. I think I had a Charlie Brown one too

but not for long. I think that was the one that fell apart.
(the lid hinge broke apart)

[ET Awful]

36. Did you have a metal one or plastic? To break a metal one

you had to like beat an orangutan to death or something with it.

[kick-ass-bob]

37. but the hinge was a weak spot in the metal ones...

I guess I am just good, then.
:shrug:

[Lavender Brown]

38. I don't think I had the thermos

It was a hand-me-down from my sisters... the thermos was probably lost long before the lunchbox got to me. :) My mom always packed juice boxes anyway.

[ET Awful]

43. Your sister probably left milk in the thermos and didn't tell mom

sisters are like that. Then the milk spoils and the thermos smells like sour milk for all eternity.

:)

[Lavender Brown]

44. Now I'm all nostalgic for school lunch

I feel like having chocolate milk and one of those Little Debbie cakes. :)

[ET Awful]

46. Mmmmmm Little Debbie . . . She was my first love :)

:evilgrin:

[ET Awful]

63. I FOUND AN ORIGINAL

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7270&item=6143444006&rd=1

YAY! (except mine was bought when Carter was president, or it might have been Ford, it sure wasn't in the 60's thoughh, I wasn't born 'til 69) :).

[Lavender Brown]

66. I wish I still had mine

Not that I would sell it.

[Left Is Write]

The one we had was older than that. It wasn't red, and the thermos was

metal. I wish I had a picture of it.

[Patiod]

51. The red plastic one

[ET Awful]

60. Mine was metal. You could dent skulls with that thing :) n/t

[Not_Giving_Up]

77. Yep, I had the metal Peanuts one too

Got a different one very year...I think it alternated between red and yellow.

[Miami Liberal]

3. Benji

and Strawberry Shortcake.

[donsu]

4. paper bag & food wrapped in wax paper as they hadn't invented

plastic bags yet.

[hunter]

50. I had to reuse the paper bags.

If me and my siblings didn't bring the brown paper bags back home, we never knew what my mom would wrap our lunches in. The worse I ever got was pink paper, the kind of paper they wrapped stuff in at the dime store.

Mostly my mom always had wax paper to wrap the actual food in. Whenever she didn't she used newspaper.

I was a weird kid, and some of the stuff my mom did made it worse. I'd have peanut butter sandwich (with a little mayonaise) wrapped in newspaper, along with some funny looking not-good-enough-for-market orange, and usually a third item that the other kids didn't recognize, -- all sorts of strange fruitcakes or vegetables or pickles.

The kids with lunch boxes had oscar-mayer lunchmeat, ketchup and bright yellow mustard, wonderbread, pretty apples, and hostess twinkies. What I got was probably better for my health.

[CO Liberal]

92. My Mother Use to Staple The Bags Closed

When i was in Fifth Grade, we discovered a use for the waxed paper our mothers used to wrap our sandwiches. We'd save it and bring it out on the playground during recess and use them to wax the slide. It made it much faster....

:-)

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Empire Strikes Back

Since I rarely ever packed a lunch, it doubled as a carrying case for my Star Wars trading cards.

[Left Is Write]

6. I didn't have a lunch box. My older sister once had a Charlie Brown

lunchbox with thermos, and I think I used it a few times.

My mother packed our lunches in brown bags.

[gollygee]

7. Mork and Mindy, the Muppets, Dukes of Hazzard

it changed from year to year

[chicagojoe]

8. Lunch boxes were considered dorky at my school.

Brown paper bag all the way.

[dolo amber]

9. I had a "Kid Power" one...

It was like this multi-racial/ethnic kid's show in the early 70s...anyone remember it? :shrug:

[underpants]

10. Evil Knievel-Happy Days-Monday night Football

Actually I have no idea but I remeber those were the biggees.

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. I remember the first one I ever owned...

I was in Kindergarden and I was the only girl with a Super Mario Brothers lunch box in 1989-90. I didn't care because video games rule and I still like playing that game. I had the bookbag to match.. It's actually the only lunch box from my childhood that I remember. All the rest were either brown paper bags or less awesome

[eyesroll]

12. Holly Hobby or some such.

Metal, I remember that.
:shrug:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

93. I had a Holly Hobby one, too.

It always smelled like peanut butter and jelly, no matter what I carried for lunch.

[Richardo]

13. Supercar, dammit!!

This very one....


............................front.....................................................................back


Of course it was metal, this was the 60s, after all. And a glass-lined thermos that seemed to shatter if you even looked at it funny.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm: glass-shard milkshake...

[tekriter]

23. Now THAT'S a kick-ass lunchbox!

I say!

[Richardo]

31. ;-)

Supercar: The greatest of the marionette-based action-adventure shows.

:thumbsup:, tekriter :)

[HEAVYHEART]

14. I didn't have a lunch box n/t

[terrya]

15. None...a paper bag!

We didn't...have lunch boxes when I was a kid!

:cry:

[tekriter]

18. We didn't have lunch!

Hadn't been invented yet. At least that's what they told us as we picked cotton in the coal mine....

[kick-ass-bob]

21. that's just what your parents told you...

[billyskank]

16. You know, I can't remember!

It was plastic and red, that's all I can remember. And it wasn't the ET one, either, which everyone else seemed to have.

[Magrittes Pipe]

17. Go-Bots.

I wasn't even cool enough for a real Transformers lunchbox. :cry:

[Butterflies]

19. The Partridge Family.

I wish I still had it.

[MissMillie]

55. me too (n/t)

[BuddhaGirl]

94. I had a Partridge Family lunchbox too!

and one year I had a Family Affair one.

Saw them both a couple of years ago at an antique fair, selling for about $80 each!!

[flvegan]

22. Kung Fu, and then Kiss

Yeah, I scared my teachers.

[ThoughtCriminal]

24. Yogi Bear

2nd grade. After that it was all paper bags.

[cmf]

25. Smurfs

Until the cool thing became taking one's lunch in a brown paper bag. :eyes:

Knowing my mother's pack-rat tendencies, it probably still resides somewhere in her kitchen cabinets.

[tsakshaug]

26. No box

paid 25 cents for lunch everyday
until High school when it went to 30 cents (extra milk 2 cents)

[AngryAmish]

27. Speed Buggy

Coolest lunch box ever.

Yes, I know you are all jealous. get over it.

I still have it. And the Thermos.

[kick-ass-bob]

29. I am jealous that you still have it.

I wish I did...

[Strawman]

32. Yes. Me too.

But I don't have mine unfortunately.

[AngryAmish]

34. Really? A fellow Speed Buggy alum?

[Strawman]

40. Yep

Can't say I recall much about the cartoon, other than that Speed Buggy was orange, but I do remember having that lunch box and thermos when I was little.

[AngryAmish]

74. I've got to invite you to the picnic next summer

[Beer Snob-50]

33. I went home for lunch everyday.

We lived 2 minutes up the street.

[kick-ass-bob]

42. in Elementary/primary school?

[Beer Snob-50]

45. yes.

[Norbert]

35. Roy Rogers then Yogi Bear

My first was a hand-me-down Roy Rogers lunch box that had Dale, Trigger and even Bullet on the front. This one was so old it didn't have a place for a Thermos.

After a year I was upgraded to Yogi who was the hot cartoon at the time.

[Mabeline]

39. Happy Days

The metal one.. *sigh* gee I miss that thing.

[dr.strangelove]

41. Land of the Lost

With Holly, Will and Dad on the front and the Big Alice on the back.

[TN al]

47. Tarzan...

...but then two years later my parents splurged on me and got me a baseball one that had the magnets and the little spinner that let you play a game.

[IronLionZion]

48. Scooby Doo hell yeah!

mine was red plastic. Metal was long before my time

[lapislzi]

49. Peanuts "featuring" Charlie Brown and Snoopy

recently recovered from a pre-rummage sale s&d mission at my dad's house.

[sakabatou]

52. Ninja Turtles

[Ilsa]

53. 2,800 brown paper bags. n/t

[Debbi801]

54. Partridge Family and Holly Hobby are 2 I remember.

[gpandas]

56. paper bag n/t

[u4ic]

69. Me, too.

I'd eat my lunch and then put it over my head.

[ernstbass]

57. Josie and the Pussycats - it was red

[Jessica]

58. Popples.

[norml]

59. I had a black metal Thermos lunch box.

It was probably an old one handed down from my dad.

[Dzimbowicz]

61. The metal type

with travel stickers all over it.

[Carson]

62. Holly Hobby, Casper, Thundar the Barbarian...all metal ones. nt

[Kire]

64. Dukes of Hazard

It had a picture of Uncle Jesse sitting at the gas station, where the price of gas was 25 cents.

[Cush]

65. Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers

wish I still had them

[Orsino]

67. Hand-Me-Downs

"voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and Peanuts. But the UFO was mine, all mine!

[rickrok66]

95. I had that same one

It had the good thermos that never leaked.

Also, I was popular because all the boys like to look at the pictures of the freaky chicks from that show. I remember there was a picture of woman looking through (I think) a periscope. She was waering a fishnet like top...Everybody used to strain to find a nipple.

Go figure.

[Samurai_Writer]

68. Partridge Family

It was super cool.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

70. UFO. The British Scifi show, not the band.

[Eugene]

71. Yellow Submarine

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

76. Eugene, that sucker is worth some $$. Still have it?

According to my Beatles Memorabilia Price Guide, Third Edition, the lunchbox by itself (without the thermos) goes for:

Good Condition: $250
Very Good: $400
Near Mint: $700

Of course, I'm assuming this is the one from 1968...

:)

[Eugene]

89. Sadly, no.

I think I got it around 1969 or 1970.
It was discarded after a fire in 1976.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

91. Bummer, Eugene. Sorry.

[sbj405]

72. Strawberry Shortcake

My brother had the cool CHIPs one.

[doc03]

73. I think I had a Red Ryder box, it was like 50 years ago!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

75. The Muppets, featuring "Animal"

[Maddy McCall]

78. Evel Knievel. Hard metal. Still have it.

:-)

[cedahlia]

79. Jem and the Holograms

It was bright yellow plastic and it ROCKED!

Also had a pink plastic "My Little Pony" one and a bright blue plastic "Wuzzles" one at different points during my childhood.

Ah, the 80s. :-)

[koneko]

80. Scooby Doo

and I also had a Charlie's Angels one, too!

[Longgrain]

81. I can't show it, I can't show it...

This wasn't mine as a kid but I've been trying to resist showing this...



From my collection of useless T.V. memrobillia...



Please don't make me show this...


What the hell...I give to you...

THE BUGALOOS!!!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

82. Metal Fantastic Four and plastic Care Bears. n/t

[Jose Diablo]

83. Wonder Woman

It may sound strange as I am a man, but I kept having these strange thoughts and fantasies about that golden lariat. Thus I insisted on a Wonder Woman lunch box. I guess my mother never really understood what I was thinking, the greatest generation were kinda naive I think.

[Goathead]

84. I had the "Emergency" lunchbox

It had firemen on it, there was a seventies show called Emergency

[Worst Username Ever]

86. I LOVED that show.

I was too young to really know what was going on, maybe 3-4 years old, but I LOVED that show. I still get nostalgic thinking about it, playing with my fire trucks. Hilarious that there is actually another person on this planet that knows that show.

[kick-ass-bob]

96. Hey! I know that show too!

I'm not really sure how I remember it at all (I was born in the 70s) but I remember it too!!

[Worst Username Ever]

85. Plastic. Red. That's all I remember!

[solinvictus]

87. Emergency!

That was for kindergarten. Then, for 1st grade, I had "Marvel Comics Superheroes" with montage pictures of popular Marvel characters. My last one was a Star Wars.

[Speck Tater]

88. Tom Corbet, Space Cadets

Back in the early 50's.

Or maybe it was Captain Video. I'm not sure after all these years.

[Art_from_Ark]

90. Mary Poppins

Not cool for a boy, even in the 1st Grade. Some kid grabbed it from me as I was walking to school, then ran around the playground with it and finally flung it into a ditch. The glass Thermos inside was shattered to pieces. I was heartbroken.

After that, my mom got me a construction worker-type lunch box. *Sigh*