Your childhood lunchbox

Remember that lunchbox you carried to school?  Or, did you have a brown paper bag like me?  The one that was reused until it became too tired to safely carry my sandwich anymore.  Maybe you had one of those cool domed Disney School Bus domed metal boxes.  Wow!  Six million were sold from the early 1960’s.  Lunchboxes designed for kids hit the market in 1902.  They were shaped like a picnic basket and had pictures of kids playing on it.  Designer lunchboxes hit the market big time in 1950 when the tv cowboy Hopalong Cassidy was featured.  Dr. Seuss was one of the few celebrities allowed to design his own.  So fun!  But, the party was over when, in 1987, parents’ groups started complaining that metal lunchboxes could be used as weapons.  It’s always something, isn’t it?