PLANET of the Apes! Holly Hobbie! Starsky and Hutch! When it came to lunch boxes, what was on the outside made what was on the inside taste better. The metal box opened with a satisfying flip of the clip, and you’d slowly lift the lid to unveil your eats for the day, shaking your head sadly at the kid sitting next to you with the wrinkly brown paper bag. Lunch-box beverages? Less thrilling. Why bring a thermos full of milk from home when you could buy a carton of ice-cold dairy goodness for a nickel? There were always kids whose parents made them, though. They had to sip room-temperature liquid from the little plastic cup, and their thermoses always smelled like sour cream. Our theory is that the most popular kids had the most popular lunch-box designs. The kids with Batman or Wonder Woman? Homecoming king and queen. The ones with The Fall Guy or Pele? Not so much. And if you were stuck with a nonlicensed design, like plaid, well, then, you were probably eating by yourself anyway. Lunch boxes are still going strong, although most are now made of plastic. Many of the metal lunch boxes from our youth are worth big bucks. Kind of makes you wish you took better care of your Bugaloos one, doesn’t it? FUN FACT: A Superman lunch box from 1954 sold at auction for a whopping $11,500.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:19:16 +0000