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.” ...

In 1950, a company called Aladdin produced the first true lunchboxes of the era, decorating plain metal boxes with stamped pictures of Hopalong Cassidy. Then, in 1953, riding the cowboy and Indian ...

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 ...

Bryan Linton toted his metal yellow Disney lunch box to kindergarten at 7th Ward School in Washington every day in 1975. He plastered some license plate stickers onto the dome-top school bus lunch box ...

Life & Culture Get your saddle shoes, Trapper Keeper, metal lunch box for back to school: Nancy Eshelman Updated: Jul. 25, 2017, 1:00 p.m. | Published: Jul. 25, 2017 ...

Yes, the Lunch Box Museum really was home to the world’s largest collection of lunch boxes, she said. Founded in 1990 by her grandfather, Allen Woodall, it now holds more than 5,000 metal and ...

So along came the vinyl lunch box, which, understandably, never managed to shake its sissy connotations. Manufacturers introduced nearly 600 new vinyl designs at the same time that metal lunch ...

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, N.Y.

Not in 1974, not now. Lunch boxes have evolved, devolved and revolved, so there’s no reason to think they won’t be with us by the time today’s Britney Spears fans are burping their own babies.

Click here to see 10 Vintage Metal Lunch Boxes Worth Big Bucks In 1950, a company called Aladdin produced the first true lunch boxes of the era, decorating plain metal boxes with stamped pictures ...