Fess up...who had a "Theme" lunch-kit as a kid....?

Originally posted by Wheelgunner840:
Around 1963-64. I am pretty sure it had a NASA theme. Astronauts and rockets if I remember corectly. It had the matching thermos too!

WG840

I had the same one Wheelgunner, in the same time period. Then at some point it was replaced with a Bonanza version.
 
Originally posted by Raider:
Mine had a cool ecological theme (bio-degradable paper sack)... reused til it almost fell apart.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
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I had the same one that you describe and my parents even had to provide the sandwiches. Who came up with the idea of a reduced price, government subsidized lunch so little Johnnies brain would work better.
 
I had two that I remember; Emergency! and Adam 12. Those were my two favorite shows as a kid. Seems like a long time ago now. My daughter has one with the Disney Princesses on it now.
 
Dont recall which ones I had, but it was a yearly event to get a new lunch box with the glass lined thermos at the same time my mother would take me clothes shopping and put it all on layaway until the new school year started.

The thermos liner always seemed to break and make a major mess since there were no ziplock bags back then. Just the sandwhich baggies that kind of folded over onto themselves.

Once the thermos was caput, that stopped me from having lukewarm soup for lunch, and the lunch box soon became home to hotwheels and toy soldiers. By the time the dreaded clothes shopping came around where I had to get clothes that were too big for me, the metal lunch box was pretty much destroyed from a summer of outdoor fun.

Sometimes the clothes would fit perfectly when we picked them up from layaway, other times it could be some hemming required or worse...highwaters. And occasionaly, the lunch box I had selected was no longer cool...lol
 
Lots of violent themed lunch boxes, your parents probably let you have toy and cap guns.

I longed for a themed lunch box, but I got the sack. Had a plaid one that was a hand me down from my sister for a while.
 
From the murky depths of my memory an image coalesces... it's of a Partridge Family lunchbox.
 
Lots of violent themed lunch boxes, your parents probably let you have toy and cap guns.

From the murky depths of my memory an image coalesces... it's of a Partridge Family lunchbox.

Nevermind
 
I had a "theme" lunch box when I was in high school. I would call it "Joe Work'n Stiff", you know, the black, rounded top metal lunch box made by Thermos with the vacuum bottle in the lid.

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My theme lunch box was a 5# brown paper bag that had the trade mark, "WA HA" on it. If a guy brought a lunch box to school, he'd get his butt kicked.
 
Superman. also collected the comics. too bad mom threw them away. probably get some $$$ for them now.
 
Reckon I was poor and deprived, as we only had brown paper bags. It was less to carry, so I guess I did not mind too much. I'm sure I would have forgotten a lunch box at least every couple of days, so a brown bag was a pretty good idea.
 
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