Metal Lunchboxes when you were a kid.

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I thought maybe it would be fun to revisit a cool item from our simpler days. The metal lunch box.

Post some pics of the ones you remember owning.

This link has a few to get you started.
http://www.thebatchellerpad.com/Lunchboxpage.htm

Here's a few I definitely remember having.

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That's quite the wide range of lunchboxes you had there.

Here is the only metal lunchbox I ever took to school. I got it for 6th grade. My parents threw out the one I had long ago, but through the miracle of ebay, I got a brand new one for my 36th birthday. Has the tags on it and everything.

I can still smell Oscar Meyer Baloney, Miracle Whip, Cheese and Wonder bread when I open it. Hey, we were poor. I ate a lot of baloney sandwiches.

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And here is a silly photshop I made with it a while back for RGP to answer the question "What new pin would you like to see Stern make?"

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/I think it came out pretty good
// Vance and Coy suck
 
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I had the Evel Knievel lunchbox and the toy motorcycle that tore up your knuckles when you wound it up.
 

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Dukes of Hazzard would make a cool pin! Lots of options.

I remember that lunch box smell very well and I had a baloney sandwiches EVERY DAY. Every so often I would get a sweet pickle in my lunch which I would eat at the same time as the sandwich to try and overpower the baloney.

I was thinking about buying the lunchboxes but I haven't seen any of them for less than $100, and that's with a lot of rust.

These also made good weapons! I'm sure all of you have either hit or have been hit over the head with one of these when you were a kid.
 
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i had a return of the jedi lunchbox. which i don't have anymore, now all i have is a pac-man lunch box with thermos.
 
The ones I can remember having are:
Emergency! 51
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi.

I really wish I still had them. I kept most things from my childhood, except for the lunchboxes. :(
 
Here's an ebay pic of my favorite one from my youth:

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I actually still have mine at my folks' house.. fortunately it didn't rust. :)
 
My in-laws collected a bunch of stuff including metal lunch boxes. They still have quite a few of them at their house. Maybe I should grab some pictures over christmas. They have these shelves that go around whole rooms about one foot below the ceiling in about 4 to 5 rooms. They have glasses, thermoses, etc as well.

I already grabbed all the video game related items they had. :D Here is a picture of the pac-man glasses I got.

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I think I have a Super Mario Brothers lunchbox around here with a Pac-man thermos too.
 
I had a Hardy Boys and Heathcliff as metal ones. I also had a Fat Albery Thermos, Pac Man plastic lunchbox...I'm definitely missing the others...
 
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