Loving those lunch boxes
As a kid growing up and going to school in the 1970s and 80s, nothing was more important to me than my lunchbox. Aside from being a necessary transport for the lunches my mother packed for me, my lunchbox was also an unfettered expression of my personality. And the same can be said for my friends. Every day, we would meet during lunch to eat and would admire the lunch boxes everyone brought. If one caught our eye, then our parents would hear about it later that night.
Correction: Our parents would hear about it a lot that night. And eventually, we would wear them down so much that we soon became the proud owners of the lunch boxes we admired most.
It was quite a racket.
Earlier today, I was trying to remember some of my favorite lunch boxes from the past. Anything with Star Wars was great, but I fondly recall the Six Million Dollar Man, the Justice League and a host of others. I had some great ones, but there were even more that I didn’t have. Thanks to the internet, I have managed to find some of my favorites and hope you enjoy this quick trip down Memory Lane.
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- Captain America
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- Batman and Robin
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- The A-Team
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- Disco. What’s she doing down there?
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- Battlestar Galactica
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- The Space Shuttle
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- The Fantastic Four
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- Dynomutt
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- Six Million Dollar Man
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- KISS
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- The Fonz 1976
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- The Dukes of Hazzard
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- Mork and Mindy
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- Evel Knievel 1974
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- Pac-Man
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- Knight Rider
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- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
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- The Incredible Hulk 1978
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- Kung Fu
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- Marvel Super Heroes
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- Robin Gibb from The Bee Gees
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- Jaws 1978
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- Welcome Back Kotter 1976
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- Star Wars
Posted on September 9, 2012, in Life, Perspectives and tagged 1970s, 1980s, childhood, life, Lunch, Lunch box, memories, personal, perspectives, photography, Recreation, school, Science Fiction, Star Wars. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Comments.
I still have my red, plastic Looney Tunes lunch box and the thermos!
Hang on to it. Wish I had saved some of mine
When I was young it was when these lunch boxes were losing their popularity. The early 80′s. I have seen on one of those auction shows on the History Channel, an guy had a whole collection of them in perfect condition that he had saved and they went for like 2 or 3 hundred thousand dollars. I have kept two of mine. My very first one and it was an A team one and a Transformers one. They’re beat up to all hell but still cool. Cool post man.
Thanks, Time-traveler. I have my old Star Wars one upstairs, but it’s beaten to hell, too. Lots of sentimental value, at least…
Good old lunch boxes!
I had a Holly Hobbie lunch box.
When I was a kid, my brother and I were allowed to fill up one lunchbox each with all the toys we’d take into the village for that trip. They’d have to be fun for about a month or two or three. And my mom would give us each a box of Nips, cheap Philippine version of M&Ms, I suppose. I hadn’t thought about this in decades. Fun memory. Thank you!
Rach.
My pleasure, Rach! Glad I could help you tap into some good childhood memories!
Great post. I love to collect old metal lunch boxes too. here is a very useful guide with images, descriptions and values to each one http://www.greatestcollectibles.com/lunchbox-price-guide/ hope its helpful.
Thanks, Greatest! I’ll check it out!