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Did you have a metal lunch box for school? what cartoon or tv character or design was on it? Mine was Barbie walking a (Original Post) debm55 16 hrs ago OP
Bullwinkle and Rocky ScoutHikerDad 16 hrs ago #1
Thank you very much for sharing with us. ScoutHikerDad. debm55 16 hrs ago #3
My parents were of the depression; we had paper bags. dem4decades 16 hrs ago #2
Thank you very much, dem4decades, for sharing. debm55 16 hrs ago #4
Me too JMCKUSICK 14 hrs ago #24
Thank you ,John for sharing. debm55 14 hrs ago #25
Davy Crockett sinkingfeeling 15 hrs ago #5
Thank you very much for sharing, sinkingfeeling. debm55 15 hrs ago #10
Roy Rogers and Dale Evan's Tiny Tabby 15 hrs ago #6
Great , thank you for sharing, Tiny Tabby. debm55 15 hrs ago #11
Brown paper bag, here, too. nocoincidences 15 hrs ago #7
That is fine. I used brown paper bags for a copy of years. I would decorate with crayons. TY nocoincidences. debm55 15 hrs ago #13
Lawman AltairIV 15 hrs ago #8
Thank you so much for sharing with us. AltairIV. debm55 15 hrs ago #14
We were poor when I was a kid Hey Joe 15 hrs ago #9
Thank you very much for sharing, Hey Joe. debm55 15 hrs ago #15
I think I had a Red Ryder or Davy Crockett lunch box. I remember the first book I ever read was doc03 15 hrs ago #12
Thanks, doc03, debm55 15 hrs ago #16
Only one I remenber SarasotaDem 15 hrs ago #17
HAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA. Thank you for sharing, SarasotaDem. debm55 15 hrs ago #18
Yellow Submarine Eugene 15 hrs ago #19
HAHAHAHAHAHHA. Thank you, Eugene. debm55 15 hrs ago #20
Holly Hobbie Coventina 15 hrs ago #21
That is so cute. Thank you very much, Coventina. debm55 15 hrs ago #22
I went to a neighborhood grade school. . wnylib 14 hrs ago #23
Thank you very much , wnylib. for sharing with us. debm55 14 hrs ago #28
Probably Evil Knievel. underpants 14 hrs ago #26
Great. thank you very much for sharing with us.underpants. debm55 14 hrs ago #29
I had a metal lunch box. Don't remember the logo but i remember the glass thermos. Srkdqltr 14 hrs ago #27
I think I had the same one! flor-de-jasmim 14 hrs ago #31
;-{) Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier Goonch 14 hrs ago #30
Quickdraw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound PufPuf23 13 hrs ago #32
A simple black and red tartan vanamonde 13 hrs ago #33
Roy Rogers and Trigger MoonlightHillFarm 12 hrs ago #34
I had a Wagon Train Covered Wagon lunch Box Wolf Frankula 11 hrs ago #35

nocoincidences

(2,492 posts)
7. Brown paper bag, here, too.
Wed May 13, 2026, 11:14 AM
15 hrs ago

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

(61,531 posts)
13. That is fine. I used brown paper bags for a copy of years. I would decorate with crayons. TY nocoincidences.
Wed May 13, 2026, 11:25 AM
15 hrs ago

AltairIV

(1,067 posts)
8. Lawman
Wed May 13, 2026, 11:16 AM
15 hrs ago

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.

Hey Joe

(788 posts)
9. We were poor when I was a kid
Wed May 13, 2026, 11:17 AM
15 hrs ago

It was mostly school provided lunches or brown
bagging it.

doc03

(39,158 posts)
12. I think I had a Red Ryder or Davy Crockett lunch box. I remember the first book I ever read was
Wed May 13, 2026, 11:24 AM
15 hrs ago

a Red Ryder book.

Coventina

(29,925 posts)
21. Holly Hobbie
Wed May 13, 2026, 11:57 AM
15 hrs ago


Please note that the thermos in the picture does NOT match the lunchbox.
The lunch box did not come with a thermos.

wnylib

(26,415 posts)
23. I went to a neighborhood grade school. .
Wed May 13, 2026, 12:09 PM
14 hrs ago

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.

Srkdqltr

(9,916 posts)
27. I had a metal lunch box. Don't remember the logo but i remember the glass thermos.
Wed May 13, 2026, 12:32 PM
14 hrs ago

I dropped it and then glass exploded. No milk that day.

flor-de-jasmim

(2,289 posts)
31. I think I had the same one!
Wed May 13, 2026, 12:43 PM
14 hrs ago

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.

PufPuf23

(9,928 posts)
32. Quickdraw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:34 PM
13 hrs ago

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

(244 posts)
33. A simple black and red tartan
Wed May 13, 2026, 01:35 PM
13 hrs ago

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.



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