The lunch box as we think of it today was born in 1935. That’s when a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, company called Geuder, Paeschke, and Frey licensed the likeness of a new cartoon character named Mickey Mouse for the top of its oblong-shaped “Lunch Kit.” The metal container was sealed at the top with a loop of stiff wire that doubled as a handle.
From that moment on, placing a character of any sort on the side of a lunch box became the standard for the lunch boxes children toted to school. Before long, the signal a lunch box sent to your peers could mark you as a cool kid or a dork, depending on if your PB&J was packed inside a Mike Mercury’s Supercar Orbital Food Container (Universal, 1962) or a Jonathan Livingston Seagull lunch box (Aladdin, 1973).
Back in the day, just having a cool lunch box was enough to be proud of. But these days, if you happened to keep your lunch box from way back when in mint condition, then you might have something to be really proud of on your hands: a potential gold mine.
1. The A-Team
2. Addams Family
3. Barbie and Francie
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. Blue Hulk Hogan
6. Cabbage Patch Kids
7. Care Bears
8. Cracker Jacks
9. DuckTales
10. The Gremlins
11. Hardy Boys Brothers
12. Harlem Globetrotters
13. Inch High Private Eye
14. KISS
15. Lunch N Tunes
16. The Muppets: Fraggle Rock
17. Paramedic
18. Peanuts
19. Snoopy
20. Star Wars
21. Super Powers
22. The Beatles
23. The Fall Guy
24. Thundercats
25. Walt Disney School Bus
(Images: Etsy, via Mashable)
From that moment on, placing a character of any sort on the side of a lunch box became the standard for the lunch boxes children toted to school. Before long, the signal a lunch box sent to your peers could mark you as a cool kid or a dork, depending on if your PB&J was packed inside a Mike Mercury’s Supercar Orbital Food Container (Universal, 1962) or a Jonathan Livingston Seagull lunch box (Aladdin, 1973).
Back in the day, just having a cool lunch box was enough to be proud of. But these days, if you happened to keep your lunch box from way back when in mint condition, then you might have something to be really proud of on your hands: a potential gold mine.
1. The A-Team
2. Addams Family
3. Barbie and Francie
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. Blue Hulk Hogan
6. Cabbage Patch Kids
7. Care Bears
8. Cracker Jacks
9. DuckTales
10. The Gremlins
11. Hardy Boys Brothers
12. Harlem Globetrotters
13. Inch High Private Eye
14. KISS
15. Lunch N Tunes
16. The Muppets: Fraggle Rock
17. Paramedic
18. Peanuts
19. Snoopy
20. Star Wars
21. Super Powers
22. The Beatles
23. The Fall Guy
24. Thundercats
25. Walt Disney School Bus
(Images: Etsy, via Mashable)
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