VINTAGE LUNCH BOXES: Back To School with Pop Culture Graveyard Ep. 18

Pop Culture Graveyard takes you back to school with Vintage Lunch Boxes! What was your favorite lunch box back in the day? Let me know in the comments, and be sure to hit that subscribe button if you want more episodes like this one. Click SHOW MORE below for more info on Vintage Lunch Boxes! Jump to your favorite lunch box with one click...

0:00 Intro 
0:49 Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote 
1:35 Woody Woodpecker 
1:59 Snoopy 
3:08 The Brady Bunch 
4:44 The Muppet Show 
6:22 The Harlem Globetrotters 
7:43 Blondie 
9:06 The Bugaloos 
11:11 Lidsville 
12:20 Sigmond and the Sea Monsters 
13:16 Julia 
14:17 The Flying Nun 
15:23 Planet of the Apes 
17:05 Star Trek 
18:35 Space 1999 
19:40 John Glenn/Orbit 
21:12 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 
22:09 Get Smart 
24:14 Kung Fu 
25:31 Welcome Back, Kotter

Why do I love lunch boxes? Partly because there's a limited number of these highly collectable vintage items. Partly because they were one-of-a-kind Pop Art masterpieces, that were mass produced for and used solely by children. Mostly because they're a charming reminder of yesteryear, when a child simply by picking out a lunch box, would choose the attitude they wanted to reveal to the world.

Years before punk-loving teenagers wore Misfits t-shirts, they probably lugged their lunch to school in a Munsters or Addams Family lunch box. Years before music nerds were old enough to get in to an actual music concert, those children could still eat lunch every day with their favorite band members on their KISS, Beatles or Monkees lunch boxes.

From the time the first metal lunch box was created (Hopalong Cassidy in 1950) to the final metal lunch box produced (Rambo 1985), children everywhere cherished them.

If you didn't grow up in the age of vintage metal lunch boxes, I totally get that you might be mystified by their appeal. But for those of us who lived through their heyday, they're forever locked in our hearts.

What lunch box did you take to school...? Feel free to leave a comment!

****************A note on cleaning your vintage metal lunch boxes******************

Don't overthink it. Water and soap. Hold one side of the lunchbox under warm water while gently rubbing it with a cloth with dishwashing soap.

Do the same to all sides, then rinse all the soap off, dry the entire box thoroughly with paper towels, and leave the box open on its side to completely dry in the air.

Avoid harsh cleaners that may damage paint. For an added shine, use a coat of car wax. Seriously. Buff the wax in, same as you would on your car. Then use a microfibre towel to shine. Best of luck!


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