Solo’s smilem make me wonder if Mad Magazine didn’t provide the art for the lunchbox.
Never mind that, I’m wondering how they fit in that car!
Perhaps it’s bigger on the inside…
So did I - pretty much every day from the first day of first grade (where I went to school, kindergarten either ended before lunch or started after lunch) until I graduated from high school, and there was a period in college when I did the same thing (because I had classes from 11 AM to 2 PM, and my dorm’s meal plan included a “brown bag lunch” option - the only problem was, pretty much the only thing you could make was a bologna sandwich).
One strange thing: my elementary and middle schools didn’t have cafeterias, but when they offered hot dogs for sale twice a month, I bought lunch; however, my high school had a cafeteria, but I didn’t buy a single lunch for all four years.
Don’t remember any one in particular but my favorite type was the ones you could play a game on, that had a spinner where you’d move your marker down the path or somesuch. Of course the spinner always got broken in a week but hey.
You have a good eye. It was Jack Davis:
There were plenty of other (occasionally odd) projects along the way, including the “Wacky Plaks” card series, trick “Pip Squirt” squirting pens, game box covers (for Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers), the “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” lunchbox, monster tattoos, greeting cards, “Red Lobster” restaurant placemats, and a 7-11 coffee cup giveaway.
Dear Lord, I don’t know to be proud or ashamed…Thank you!
I had that one! 1st or 2nd grade, then hot lunches cooked in the real live school cafeteria.
My older sister had The Munroes. An obscure western.
I first had DC superheroes, then later I had my dad’s metal lunchbox, then I moved on to paper bagging it.
When I was in elementary school in the 70s, we walked home for lunch every day and returned to school in the afternoon… different times.
Brown paper bag - my mom made us reuse one for a week - we could toss it on Friday. Otherwise, with 5 kids in school, you go thru a lot of bags.
I had the Atom Ant lunchbox and my brother had the Fess Parker as Daniel Boone
one. I really wanted The Osmonds and/or Donny and Marie a few years later.
I had one of these Battle of the Planets ones, and several others, but I can’t really recall any of the others too well.
The two I remember were The Partridge Family and Emergency!
My brother had that one and still does including the thermos.
Wow…I guess I’m the only Campus Queen in the bunch
UT~
I lived only two blocks away from school, so I almost always went home to lunch (1960s). The handful of times I took a lunch, it was in a brown paper bag.
When I was about to start 1st grade, my mom had me pick out a lunch box. I used this Earth Day/Ecology lunchbox for a couple of years, then I switched to brown paper bags, folding and re-using the same one usually for about a week each.
BTW, is that the same one you had, ducati?
Popples! I dunno why since I never liked them that much, but I remember loving the lunchbox. Funny enough, I still have my stuffed Popple XD I probably love it more now than I did as a kid.
^^^ I used to have a trash can with the Popples all over it!
God bless you always!!!
Holly
P.S. I had forgotten about them until you brought them up.
I had one of those, I loved it! I went to a private, religious school and all us little girls were obsessed with Little House on the Prairie so we all started bringing our lunch in metal pails like the Ingalls girls. Everything had to be wrapped in tea towels.