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 ...

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, decorating plain metal boxes with stamped pictures ...

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 ...

Rows of metal pictorial lunch boxes line the upper shelves of a section of the Yoder Homestead Shop on Main Street June 20, 2012 in Arcola. (Photo by Ken Trevarthan/Journal Gazette & Times-Courier).

The collection of 520 vintage lunch boxes is the product of a 40-year passion project of Lancaster native Marvin Brown. “When people saw them, usually, the first expression was ‘Wow.

In 1950, a company called Aladdin produced the first true lunch boxes of the era, decorating plain metal boxes with stamped pictures of Hopalong Cassidy. Then, in 1953, riding the cowboy and Indian ...