Schoolchildren never again would know the pure joy of toting their ham salad sandwiches to school in a shiny new Charlie’s Angels lunch box. It was 1985, and the Thermos Co. manufactured what ...

Old metal lunch boxes have skyrocketed in price. Browse through your old playthings & see which of these valuable vintage lunch boxes you can find.

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, 'Hey, these lunch boxes, metal boxes, are dangerous weapons.

It’s hard to imagine a time when nearly every kid in school either at lunch out of a brown paper bag or a giant metal lunchbox. There were no fancy insulated containers or mini coolers. There were ...

The successful launch of this lunchbox was a “win-win” for TV and movie studios seeking to gain exposure and for manufacturers trying to sell lunchboxes. The classic metal lunchbox era came to ...

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, ...

The metal lunchbox is back ... The PlanetBox is a funky retro-looking stainless-steel lunch box. It's slightly bento-style in that it separates food into distinct, built-in compartments.

The earliest lunch boxes were circa 1900 metal pails […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 58°F. Thursday, August 3rd 2023 E-Edition. Home Page. Close Menu. News. News; ...

Whatever the case, it appears that Rambo, in 1985, was the last character on the last metal lunchbox. But the plastic ones just weren't the same. Not to kids then.

Samantha Ortiz, 9, of Georgetown, Ky., said she uses four lunch boxes at Western Elementary School–none metal. They’re all of the squishy variety. One features the cartoon character Arthur.