Back in the day, people would haul their lunches around in metal boxes. Turns out, there were several good reasons for making ...

It was 1985, and the Thermos Co. manufactured what was widely regarded as the final metal lunch box. Or so we thought. Sean Brickell calls the following metal-free years “the dark ages.” ...

Kids today carry their lunch to school in brown paper bags, insulated plastic sacks and even compartmentalized bento boxes. But for earlier generations, there was one dominant option: a metal ...

Historic lunchbox, 1880s. A tobacco box was recycled as lunch box. Harold Dorwin / SI Sadly, the metal lunch box has mostly gone the way of the overhead projector. Today’s kids often tote their ...

Back when we were kids, metal was in — at least in our lunch boxes. Often branded with the iconic characters of our time, they traipsed back and forth to school with us and became sturdy ...

All 3,000 of them. “I’m stopping at 3,000,” Zieja says. “I’m not collecting metal lunch boxes anymore because there are only about eight ever made that I don’t have.” Zieja ...

You might as well call it the Year of the Lunch Box, thanks in large part to a genius move by a Nashville-based manufacturer, Aladdin Industries. The company already made square metal meal ...

"I don't know. It takes me back. It takes me back. It really does." In 1985 Rambo marked the end of the metal lunch box era. Why? "A group of moms down in Florida back in the early '80s said ...

To learn more: Consult “The Pictorial Price Guide to Metal Lunch Boxes” by Larry Aikins (L-W Book Sales, $19.95), “The Official Price Guide to Lunch Box Collectibles (House of Collectibles, ...

Over the years, we’ve tested dozens of lunch boxes, including insulated fabric bags, plastic bento boxes, and metal bento boxes. Since some families want both insulation and organization ...

Have you ever wondered where all of your old metal lunch boxes that you had when you were a kid went to? Chances are they ended up at Jerry’s Place ice cream parlor in little Hartwick ...

Gone are the days of carrying your lunch in a paper bag ... with two stainless-steel bento boxes, a fork, a bamboo cover and, of course, the enameled metal triangle logo. Fashion house Balenciaga ...