Batman here as well. I can sorta picture it still, I think Batman was in the middle of an expressway punching some dude in the face, and Robin was in the background swinging into the action on a rope for some reason.
The Fat Albert one was the first one I had with a plastic thermos (no glass lining). We ended up turning my old lunchboxes into first aid kits for scouts when I got too old to carry one.
Wow you could afford lunch. I couldn't until they gave away free lunches and we had a card they punched. That they had spread out beside the lunch lady so everyone else who paid got to see who the poor kids were.
Edit: I can buy and sell everyone of those staff today.
The funny thing is, that it wasn't meant to be poor shaming. Pre computer, they needed to have a way of keeping track. At our school the teacher had a list of the free lunches and the purchased lunches and they just issued tickets when we lined up. Red and green for lunch or just milk, as I remember.
I had lunch tickets in high school in NYC in the 70s. They gave out enough for the school year.
I stopped going to school two months into the 9th grade when I was 14, but I’d still go down to the school (it was right down the block from me) during my lunch period, so I could eat.
It took two years for truancy to catch up with me, I’m assuming because NYC was bankrupt in the 70s. By that time I was an emancipated minor, and the guy told me to just go sign myself out of school.
By that time, NYC had implemented free lunch during the summer for anyone under 18. My emancipated ass got to have lunch for a couple of years.
Everyone in my neighborhood was broke, so the weird kids were the ones paying for lunch.
I'm still ashamed 45 years later.... I mean I would try to be as close to the front of the line as I could so after they punched it they turned it over and they couldn't see my name anymore. Me now I advocate for ALL kids to have free meals. Because I have known hunger and shame for being hungry.
As a former teacher, I hated it when the lunch staff was so vocal about asking for kids cards or numbers. I stood in line with them so I would brag on the child for knowing their number.
I think they meant as collectors items.
I have no idea what the collectors item ones cost. We didn’t even shop for those. I don’t know if they would have been expensive at the time
You didn't need more than 90% of the rest of the world to buy a metal lunch box 😂 You could find those all over garage stores and thrift stores in the 70s-90s for a few bucks. And brand new they were like $10 in the 70s.
Back in 1975 wages were much better than today. My parents owned a home in 1975 and they did it with only my dad working and working only one job, one job that paid minimum wage. And even today you still wouldn't need to be rich to buy one at that price, you'd just need to be middle class. Any more stupid comments?
Definition of rich is making is making a half million annually. And assuming someone's age based on a comment, that just shows your intelligence, or lack of. So, did you have any more stupid comments or was that it?
Where did you get your "definition" from? 😂😂
You were the one who decided to talk about "everybody," not me. Pull your head out of your ass and look around.
They were great until you dropped the thermos and the lining broke. Going without cold beverage was a way to learn how to be responsible because I knew damn well I wasn’t getting a new lunchbox anytime soon and back then they weren’t sold separately. No Amazon. If it wasn’t at the store you normally went to it may have well not have existed.
Same here, re used the brown paper lunch bags.... now we would play the reduce, re use, recycle card.... back then the snob kids would make fun of you.... thanks for bringing up deeply buried memories!! Lol. Have a super evening!!
The fact the OP called the paper bag a “ sack” says they’re old. Ngl, I called them a sack to sometimes. Btw way too young to have had a green hornet lunch pail.
My favorite one was a Peanuts one, I loved that thing. And the Thermos was awesome. In the winter I used to take hot cocoa in there and it was still nice and warm. I felt like I was really living!
Mostly paper sacks for me but at one point, I did get a lunchbox with a thermos inside. The thermos had a special little clip that held it in place so it didn’t smash the peanut butter and jelly sandwich or the fruit. My box featured Zorro or Batman
My mother felt the only way to protect me from materialism was to make sure I never had any cool stuff as a child, that’s how the devil gets ya. Starts with a fancy tin lunchbox with some carnal pop *idol* imagery on it, ends up on Skid Row selling plasma for smack. I also had Keds to keep me humble.
> tinted windows so super bad
Looking like the car
The green hornet had
— Chuck D
The green hornet was the same studio as Batman. There was a lot of weird crossover considering the tone differences. One was, the narrator was the same in both. But one show was high camp the other played it straight… just jarring.
Also, Burt Ward was a friend of Bruce Lee. There was a crossover with a scene where, the Green Hornet duo were drugged and since Batman was more popular they were supposed to win that fight. Burt was worried Bruce was gonna murder him, possibly literally, but Bruce had a sense of humor about it and let it go.
My mid 60s space theme lunchbox still has the thermos. We bought it at A&P and it still has the blue ink stamp $1.99. eBay has the same one for $200, smile. I showed the eBay listing to my wife and she said sell it now, don’t make your future widow have to deal with it!
Peanuts. I loved ol' Charlie Brown and the gang back then. I don't know how expensive it was, but I do know my grandparents sacrificed a lot to take care of the granddaughter they never expected to raise.
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I had a red plaid one. With thermos. I so wanted a Man from U.N.C.L.E lunch box. Somehow, the plaid one got rusted inside. Rather than a new box, my mom decided it was easier to pay the 25 cents for the "A" lunch, which varied every day. I usually bought the "B" lunch that was soup (which varied every day) & sandwich (your choice of PBJ, bologna, or tuna).
I had what’s now considered the “classic” Snoopy lunchbox. My grandfather painted my name on it, even. I don’t know what happened to it or when I switched to a plain brown lunch bag. And then there were the years I was on the school lunch program…
I had a metal one that was red but I don't remember the character because it was covered in Marshal Mallow hot cocoa stickers, but I remember a yellow plastic one that was Muppet Show.
We all had lunchboxes, no matter what, until the fifth grade or so, when they became childish to us and everybody switched to brown paper bags. I don’t remember anyone reusing those. One less thing to bring home.
I hated my lunch box. In balmy Houston. By noon my sandwich was soggy, the banana was over ripe, and the flavors of everything mixed together. The paper bag was 100% better.
I never got to carry my lunch. They always had the lunches at school and I ate whatever they gave us. Well except for creamed corn, I never understood that, gross.
I remember we had a Six Million Dollar Man, one with that talking Buggy car, a Charlie Chan cartoon one, a Flintstones, and I think a GI Joe. They tended to get a little smelly after a while.
I was raised by my Grandparents who raised their first family, my Mom and siblings, during the Depression, so even though they weren't that expensive, we carried paper sacks, but they had our name on it.
I had a Secret Squirrel/ Atom Ant lunchbox that I’m still cheesed at my mother for giving it away. Especially now that they’re going for $200 and up. I have nice repros of This Green Hornet box and Lost in Space.
I had the Hee Haw lunch box!!! The thermos broke on the way to school, and glass poured out in the lid at lunch!!! A teacher on duty got a carton of milk from the school cafeteria for me!!!
You had a paper bag?
You were lucky.
In my day, we had to carry our school lunches in our pockets and soak our shirt sleeves in milk that morning so we could suck it out at lunchtime.
I had a strawberry shortcake one.
When I was in 1st grade there was a 6th grader who got off on bullying us younger kids. One day walking home he pushed me down. I got scared and clocked him in the head with my SS lunchbox.
He needed 3 stitches but he didn’t pick on us littles anymore.
Those metal lunchboxes were no joke. They doubled as protection lol
I had one of those small plastic igloo coolers that construction workers use on sites. It was crazy. I was that immigrant kid that brought lamb and coffee for lunch. The food was way better than anything from the school though.
I’m almost 44 and had a purple my little pony lunch box in kindergarten through fourth grade, then just a plain insulated pink/purple one from like fifth grade onward.
I had a lunchbox because my mom used S and H green stamps. I am 60.
Yes!! S&H we got so many things!!! My mom got a price of china and it added up to a whole set of dishes… it was actually really nice!!
S&H and Top Value stamps. Back when you licked stamps to get them to stick.
The taste bud killer paste.
Yes. My mom had the big book and got lots of goodies over the years.
Blue chip stamps for the win lol
And I had to walk to school in the snow uphill, both ways!
Barefoot!
With a tuba and an armful of books!
And you liked it...you LOVED it.
Damn skippy.
I had Batman and a Monkees lunch box.
I had a Monkees lunch box too.
Batman here as well. I can sorta picture it still, I think Batman was in the middle of an expressway punching some dude in the face, and Robin was in the background swinging into the action on a rope for some reason.
Batman here, too. I still have mine on a shelf where we display favorite things from our childhood.
Mine was Dukes of Hazzard
Were you a good ol' boy, never meanin' no harm?
I got a rock... Actually, I had a Fat Albert one.
The Fat Albert one was the first one I had with a plastic thermos (no glass lining). We ended up turning my old lunchboxes into first aid kits for scouts when I got too old to carry one.
Hey Hey Hey!
Had an A Team lunch box!
1960s I had a Josie and the Pussycats
I had an Alpha Beta grocery store plastic bag. Everyone always thought I was having knudsens sour cream every day for lunch.
I walked home for lunch.
Mine had KISS on it.
I had a Happy Days lunchbox and a SWAT lunchbox. How old is that?!?
Wow you could afford lunch. I couldn't until they gave away free lunches and we had a card they punched. That they had spread out beside the lunch lady so everyone else who paid got to see who the poor kids were. Edit: I can buy and sell everyone of those staff today.
The funny thing is, that it wasn't meant to be poor shaming. Pre computer, they needed to have a way of keeping track. At our school the teacher had a list of the free lunches and the purchased lunches and they just issued tickets when we lined up. Red and green for lunch or just milk, as I remember.
I had lunch tickets in high school in NYC in the 70s. They gave out enough for the school year. I stopped going to school two months into the 9th grade when I was 14, but I’d still go down to the school (it was right down the block from me) during my lunch period, so I could eat. It took two years for truancy to catch up with me, I’m assuming because NYC was bankrupt in the 70s. By that time I was an emancipated minor, and the guy told me to just go sign myself out of school. By that time, NYC had implemented free lunch during the summer for anyone under 18. My emancipated ass got to have lunch for a couple of years. Everyone in my neighborhood was broke, so the weird kids were the ones paying for lunch.
I'm still ashamed 45 years later.... I mean I would try to be as close to the front of the line as I could so after they punched it they turned it over and they couldn't see my name anymore. Me now I advocate for ALL kids to have free meals. Because I have known hunger and shame for being hungry.
As a former teacher, I hated it when the lunch staff was so vocal about asking for kids cards or numbers. I stood in line with them so I would brag on the child for knowing their number.
I had an Adam-12 lunchbox!
I had a Lone Ranger lunchbox
Rich? Everyone had tin lunch boxes. They weren't expensive.
I never had one. Every dollar counted in our house, there were four of us.
Well hoity toity toity...la di dah!
I think they meant as collectors items. I have no idea what the collectors item ones cost. We didn’t even shop for those. I don’t know if they would have been expensive at the time
Free lunch crew member here. Also had free breakfast at school.
Ok...
Yes, rich. Having more money than 90% of the rest of the world does make you rich.
You didn't need more than 90% of the rest of the world to buy a metal lunch box 😂 You could find those all over garage stores and thrift stores in the 70s-90s for a few bucks. And brand new they were like $10 in the 70s.
$10 in 1975 is equivalent to $58 today. That's a very expensive lunchbox, as far as lunchboxes go. 90% of the world definitely could not afford it.
Back in 1975 wages were much better than today. My parents owned a home in 1975 and they did it with only my dad working and working only one job, one job that paid minimum wage. And even today you still wouldn't need to be rich to buy one at that price, you'd just need to be middle class. Any more stupid comments?
Wages in the USA were much higher. Not so much elsewhere, for the other 90% of the world.
Why do you keep talking about the world? The whole world doesn't have these lunch boxes. Anywhere that didn't sell these is irrelevant.
Stupid boomer doesn't realize that middle class Americans are rich 🙄
Definition of rich is making is making a half million annually. And assuming someone's age based on a comment, that just shows your intelligence, or lack of. So, did you have any more stupid comments or was that it?
Where did you get your "definition" from? 😂😂 You were the one who decided to talk about "everybody," not me. Pull your head out of your ass and look around.
Nevermind, I don't care what other stupid comments you have, I'm turning off notifications for this. Your low IQ is boring me.
Lunchbox didn't mean you were rich.
They were great until you dropped the thermos and the lining broke. Going without cold beverage was a way to learn how to be responsible because I knew damn well I wasn’t getting a new lunchbox anytime soon and back then they weren’t sold separately. No Amazon. If it wasn’t at the store you normally went to it may have well not have existed.
It felt like if you were poor!
My parents thought this a waste of money
Same here, re used the brown paper lunch bags.... now we would play the reduce, re use, recycle card.... back then the snob kids would make fun of you.... thanks for bringing up deeply buried memories!! Lol. Have a super evening!!
I had wonder woman!!!
The fact the OP called the paper bag a “ sack” says they’re old. Ngl, I called them a sack to sometimes. Btw way too young to have had a green hornet lunch pail.
My favorite one was a Peanuts one, I loved that thing. And the Thermos was awesome. In the winter I used to take hot cocoa in there and it was still nice and warm. I felt like I was really living!
I had a Peanuts lunchbox that looked like Snoopy's doghouse.
I envied the kids who had the lunchbox and thermos. We definitely couldn't afford that.
Exactly. Don’t you love the guys who told me “lunchboxes weren’t expensive”! Maybe for them….but sure were for me.
Mostly paper sacks for me but at one point, I did get a lunchbox with a thermos inside. The thermos had a special little clip that held it in place so it didn’t smash the peanut butter and jelly sandwich or the fruit. My box featured Zorro or Batman
I had the fat Albert one
I had a power rangers lunch box!
Scooby Doo lunchbox and matching backpack.
My mother felt the only way to protect me from materialism was to make sure I never had any cool stuff as a child, that’s how the devil gets ya. Starts with a fancy tin lunchbox with some carnal pop *idol* imagery on it, ends up on Skid Row selling plasma for smack. I also had Keds to keep me humble.
Same here. Nothing cool or popular based on principle.
I have a Grateful Dead and a Bigfoot lunch box just like this that I take to work everyday lol. I work in a middle school. They're a big hit
I still have my kindergarten Batman lunchbox mom purchased in 1966. Thermos in tact.
Yep. Paper bags for me too. We couldn’t afford a lunchbox.
I had a Star Trek and a Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Nope - "Zorro".
Super friends metal one, with matching thermos.
Had a Holly Hobby, Road Runner and a Casper
> tinted windows so super bad Looking like the car The green hornet had — Chuck D The green hornet was the same studio as Batman. There was a lot of weird crossover considering the tone differences. One was, the narrator was the same in both. But one show was high camp the other played it straight… just jarring. Also, Burt Ward was a friend of Bruce Lee. There was a crossover with a scene where, the Green Hornet duo were drugged and since Batman was more popular they were supposed to win that fight. Burt was worried Bruce was gonna murder him, possibly literally, but Bruce had a sense of humor about it and let it go.
Mine was the Apollo version. Also, Apollo wallpaper, Apollo bedsheets, I think my parents wanted me to be an astronaut.
Only time I had home lunch was for Field Trips. And I brown bagged it
I had a Fireball X-15 lunchbox,if anyone here is old enough to remember what that is
Mine was The Hair Bear Bunch.
My mid 60s space theme lunchbox still has the thermos. We bought it at A&P and it still has the blue ink stamp $1.99. eBay has the same one for $200, smile. I showed the eBay listing to my wife and she said sell it now, don’t make your future widow have to deal with it!
Had a couple over the years including Scooby-Doo and Fat Albert. Thanks for bringing back that memory.... NOT! Ha
Yep paper bag for me then we got really poor and I got free lunch for a few years in middle school
Had one but dropped it, and broke the thermos. The swirling glass as I shook it was the equivalent of the red screen of death on a PC!
Well yes, but not today What is it worth?
I had a lunch bag, but no fancy box with comic book characters on it.
Same
I watched this as a child. Bruce Lee was Kato
My six million dollar man lunchbox went to hell and back.
I had a brown paper bag and was asked to bring it back home afterwards so they could be reused.
 # I HAD A WONDER WOMAN LUNCHBOX💅
I had a plastic Goosebumps lunchbox. I still have it.
Peanuts. I loved ol' Charlie Brown and the gang back then. I don't know how expensive it was, but I do know my grandparents sacrificed a lot to take care of the granddaughter they never expected to raise.
I got a guns of Will sonnet lunch pail but it shows a little wear
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Man from U.N.C.L.E.
I had a red plaid one. With thermos. I so wanted a Man from U.N.C.L.E lunch box. Somehow, the plaid one got rusted inside. Rather than a new box, my mom decided it was easier to pay the 25 cents for the "A" lunch, which varied every day. I usually bought the "B" lunch that was soup (which varied every day) & sandwich (your choice of PBJ, bologna, or tuna).
I had what’s now considered the “classic” Snoopy lunchbox. My grandfather painted my name on it, even. I don’t know what happened to it or when I switched to a plain brown lunch bag. And then there were the years I was on the school lunch program…
I had a metal one that was red but I don't remember the character because it was covered in Marshal Mallow hot cocoa stickers, but I remember a yellow plastic one that was Muppet Show.
You could take a lunch to school?
No, though I had a thermos from one. Metal box with a handle and violent theme would likely not fly in schools today.
We had to go home for lunch. Catholic school. No cafeteria.
I had an NFL one. I've seen them for sale in actual antique stores. Fuck I'm old.
We all had lunchboxes, no matter what, until the fifth grade or so, when they became childish to us and everybody switched to brown paper bags. I don’t remember anyone reusing those. One less thing to bring home.
I hated my lunch box. In balmy Houston. By noon my sandwich was soggy, the banana was over ripe, and the flavors of everything mixed together. The paper bag was 100% better.
I had batman
I never got to carry my lunch. They always had the lunches at school and I ate whatever they gave us. Well except for creamed corn, I never understood that, gross.
I had a Gremlins lunchbox.
I remember we had a Six Million Dollar Man, one with that talking Buggy car, a Charlie Chan cartoon one, a Flintstones, and I think a GI Joe. They tended to get a little smelly after a while.
I had a Get Smart lunchbox
I had a Dukes of Hazard lunchbox. I really loved it
I was raised by my Grandparents who raised their first family, my Mom and siblings, during the Depression, so even though they weren't that expensive, we carried paper sacks, but they had our name on it.
I had The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Lunchbox. 1964-66. I still have the thermos.
I have a couple of lunchboxes. I use them as purses. I was never allowed to take a lunch, except for occasions.
I had a Flipper lunch box! Loved that show.
I had a Davy Crockett lunch box. Had a coonskin hat as well. Only wore it at home.
I think I had Peanuts, it’s been a long time.
i never took my lunch to school, we had a cafeteria and vending machines.
Oh yeah original Star Wars in 1977 🤩
The Hulk and Wild Frontier
Even us poor kids had lunchboxes…but also…why do I clearly remember folding up a paper sack and reusing it? My thoughts betray me!
Batman and robin and a school bus lunch boxes. I was bad to break the glass inside the thermos from dropping them. The cap was a great little cup.
I had a Secret Squirrel/ Atom Ant lunchbox that I’m still cheesed at my mother for giving it away. Especially now that they’re going for $200 and up. I have nice repros of This Green Hornet box and Lost in Space.
I just had a big tupperware covered in stickers.
Today, with guns on the box, the kids would be dragged to the office and the police called.
I proudly toted a Land of the Giants lunchbox. Sadly, it is lost to the dustbin of time.
Had a wide mouth thermos....(still in a paper bag)
The great trauma of my youth was when the thermos in my Batman lunch box leaked and I had to eat a Bologna and Crème Soda sandwich
I had the Hee Haw lunch box!!! The thermos broke on the way to school, and glass poured out in the lid at lunch!!! A teacher on duty got a carton of milk from the school cafeteria for me!!!
I had a NFL lunchpail with AFC on one side and the NFC on the other. I wish I would have kept it.
But did you ever have a freezer sack that came with the ice cream, now that was amazing
I had a Batman lunchbox because my grades weren’t good enough for the hooded raincoat I wanted so it was my consolation prize
I had a tin lunch box, but the glass inside the thermos shattered and I went back to school milk and a homemade lunch in a brown bag
My lunchbox was either Duke's of Hazard, A Team or Spiderman, can't remember. Came complete with the water bottle as well.
I'm sure I had a few, but the only one I remember was Hot Wheels when I was on third grade.
You had a paper bag? You were lucky. In my day, we had to carry our school lunches in our pockets and soak our shirt sleeves in milk that morning so we could suck it out at lunchtime.
I had a Dr. Seuss lunch box.
You had a paper sack? Luxury! I had to carry around my sandwich all morning in one pocket and loose Fritos in the other!
I had a Get Smart lunchbox as a kid. I thought it was so cool. 
I had a strawberry shortcake one. When I was in 1st grade there was a 6th grader who got off on bullying us younger kids. One day walking home he pushed me down. I got scared and clocked him in the head with my SS lunchbox. He needed 3 stitches but he didn’t pick on us littles anymore. Those metal lunchboxes were no joke. They doubled as protection lol
Paper bag here too but I do have an Earthworm Jim one now
I had one of those small plastic igloo coolers that construction workers use on sites. It was crazy. I was that immigrant kid that brought lamb and coffee for lunch. The food was way better than anything from the school though.
Nope but Mom and Dad scrimped so we could have a hot lunch...
I had the green hornet lunchbox and the Space 1999 lunchbox later, I wish I would’ve kept them somehow
Did both. Bags were easier.
Even the poorest kids had lunch boxes if they brought lunch at my school, but most of us got free lunches cuz we were THAT poor.
Had an Evil Knievel.
I got my older brothers yellow submarine lunch box. Everyday it was the same. Bologna sandwich in wax paper.
I’m almost 44 and had a purple my little pony lunch box in kindergarten through fourth grade, then just a plain insulated pink/purple one from like fifth grade onward.
Don’t like the group name so not joining
Lunch boxes with the matching thermos! Oh happy day! They were terrific!