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 ...

7 Valuable Vintage Metal Lunch Boxes That Defined Your Childhood . Kids today spend hours picking out the perfect bookbag to carry around school, but in the 1960s and 70s, that frenzied energy was ...

For the next 30 years or so, metal lunch boxes entered a golden age; pop icons from The Beatles to Barbie were featured on their own box. And let's be honest, having a cool lunch box was what ...

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 ...

A great lunch box should be durable, easy to pack, and simple for kids to handle. We’ve tested dozens of insulated lunch bags and bento boxes to find the best.

Cheap vinyl lunch boxes made a brief appearance in the 1960s, but metal continued to dominate the lunch box scene until the 1980s, when molded plastic—which was less expensive to manufacture ...

The original lunch boxes of the late 19th century were more like latching metal tubs, and the only status it signaled was poverty.

Thermos was the last to cease metal production, in 1985. Perhaps fittingly, it was a Rambo lunch box. During that time, collectors like Nelson Plain of Lexington, Ky., were haunting flea markets ...

What does the word "vintage" conjure up for you? For us, it's homemade chocolate chip cookies, red and white checkered tablecloths, home-cooked Sunday dinners, and that whole Donna Reed fantasy life.