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

The majority of lunchboxes in the exhibit are the television and movie boxes that dominated from the early-1950s through the mid-1980s, but the metal lunchbox had more humble beginnings.

There were soft lunch boxes a-plenty, with Dory from the Pixar animated film, Superman, and a Justice "Dream on, Dreamer" lunch tote. Giles showed the kids her metal Peanuts lunch box.

METAL LUNCH BOXES CARRY PLENTY OF MEMORIES By Chicago Tribune UPDATED: August 20, 2021 at 10:12 p.m.

This Superman metal lunchbox from Thermos arrived in 1967. The classic metal lunchbox era ended with concerns that pieces of metal would be used as weapons.

Midday memories The history of the lunch box mirrors American history. The earliest lunch boxes were circa 1900 metal pails or re-used biscuit, tobacco, or candy tins. From the turn of the century ...

First, a little history. At the turn of the 20th century it was workmen, not children, who carried lunch boxes--mostly plain, metal lunch pails or collapsible metal boxes.

It was television – not movie cartoons or the funny papers – that really drove the golden age of vivid metal lunchboxes, which spanned four decades. In 1950-’51, TV cowboy Hopalong Cassidy, who ...

Fashion trends seem to be outdoing themselves on the daily, but the latest fashion status symbol might come as a surprise. The new "it bag" is the lunch box.

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. Food goes directly into the box ...