Comments on: Going to Lunch in Style with Historic Lunchboxes

By: Shelia Butler

Shelia Butler — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:08:13 +0000

Great post. I too love all things retro — especially retro lunchboxes. This is one of the main reasons that we package all of our current products in retro tin lunch boxes. We get more positive feedback about kids loving our lunchboxes than we do on the products themselves.

By: organisation mariage

organisation mariage — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:01:52 +0000

he first metal lunchbox produced was the Hopalong Cassidy created by the Aladdin Company of Nashville in 1950. They made a blue and a red lunchbox with a four-inch decal on the front side. The profits from the new lunchboxes enabled Aladdin to build a new lunch box manufacturing plant. Their second lunch box design was the decaled Tom Corbett Space Cadet box made in 1952. The American Thermos Company introduced the first lithographed lunchbox in 1953, it had a Roy Rogers design. The Aladdin company then changed their lunchboxes to being fully lithographed instead of using decals, in 1954.

By: tin lunch boxes

tin lunch boxes — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:41:50 +0000

Great article! I am a huge fan of most things retro and love collecting these. Although there is a reasonable sized market for vintage lunch boxes articles on the subject are quite hard to find online (although there is more information offline, books etc). More of the same please!

By: Lisa Henchen

Lisa Henchen — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:00:31 +0000

I have a very old lunchbox that i am trying to find out more about.It is red plad possibly made of tin.on the inside cover SAFETY FIRST is printed and then it goes into describing how to cross a street run not walk in the hallways and so on on the right hand side on the inside cover it shows (3)pictures of children( 1) chlidren holding hands (2) children on a teater tawter (3) achild throwing out trash. at the bottom it has ALADDIN INDUSTRIES,INCORPORATED NASHVILLE TENNESSEE. Also it says tha these safety rules are published as a contribution to the Child Safety Campaign of the NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL. if anyone can help me find out more about this unique lunchbox please call or email.

THANKYOU
LISA HENCHEN
#(585) 857-7334

By: Lisa Henchen

Lisa Henchen — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:49:42 +0000

I own a very old Lunchbox.I am trying to find out more about it.I believe it is made of tin,It is plad red and on the inside cover on the left hand side at the top it has SAFETY FIRST written,and then goes into descrbing how to cross the street ,walk not run in the halls,and so on.On the right hand side it shows pictures (3) children holding hands crossing a street,2 children on a teater tawter,and a child throwing out trash. It says that these rules are published as a contribution to the Child Safety Campaign of the NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL at the bottom it says that it is made by ALADDIN INDUSTRIES,INCORPORATED NASHVILLE,TENNESSEE. If anyone can help me that would be great!!
Lisa Henchen
#(585) 857 7334

By: bags

bags — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:56:16 +0000

I agree with the fact that lunch boxes are making a comeback. We have a ecommerce bags store and our highest selling bags are lunch bags. Our customers are looking to adopt eco friendly habits and reusing the lunch tote eliminates trash.

Some of our bags are featured with Betty Boop, Lucy, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, etc… We don’t go back as far as 1800’s, but the 1950 characters have been popular.