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wnylib

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23. I went to a neighborhood grade school. .

Reply to debm55 (Original post)

Wed May 13, 2026, 12:09 PM

May 13

We all went home for lunch.

In junior and senior high, we were too old for the cutesy lunch boxes. We carried paper bags or bought lunch at the cafeteria.

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Did you have a metal lunch box for school? what cartoon or tv character or design was on it? Mine was Barbie walking a [View all] debm55 May 13 OP

Bullwinkle and Rocky ScoutHikerDad May 13 #1

Thank you very much for sharing with us. ScoutHikerDad. debm55 May 13 #3

My parents were of the depression; we had paper bags. dem4decades May 13 #2

Thank you very much, dem4decades, for sharing. debm55 May 13 #4

Me too JMCKUSICK May 13 #24

Thank you ,John for sharing. debm55 May 13 #25

Same here. Morbius May 14 #41

We brought our bag home to be reused too. Imagine that. dem4decades May 14 #42

Davy Crockett sinkingfeeling May 13 #5

Thank you very much for sharing, sinkingfeeling. debm55 May 13 #10

Roy Rogers and Dale Evan's Tiny Tabby May 13 #6

Great , thank you for sharing, Tiny Tabby. debm55 May 13 #11

Brown paper bag, here, too. nocoincidences May 13 #7

That is fine. I used brown paper bags for a copy of years. I would decorate with crayons. TY nocoincidences. debm55 May 13 #13

Lawman AltairIV May 13 #8

Thank you so much for sharing with us. AltairIV. debm55 May 13 #14

We were poor when I was a kid Hey Joe May 13 #9

Thank you very much for sharing, Hey Joe. debm55 May 13 #15

I think I had a Red Ryder or Davy Crockett lunch box. I remember the first book I ever read was doc03 May 13 #12

Thanks, doc03, debm55 May 13 #16

Only one I remenber SarasotaDem May 13 #17

HAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA. Thank you for sharing, SarasotaDem. debm55 May 13 #18

Yellow Submarine Eugene May 13 #19

HAHAHAHAHAHHA. Thank you, Eugene. debm55 May 13 #20

Holly Hobbie Coventina May 13 #21

That is so cute. Thank you very much, Coventina. debm55 May 13 #22

I went to a neighborhood grade school. . wnylib May 13 #23

Thank you very much , wnylib. for sharing with us. debm55 May 13 #28

Probably Evil Knievel. underpants May 13 #26

Great. thank you very much for sharing with us.underpants. debm55 May 13 #29

I had a metal lunch box. Don't remember the logo but i remember the glass thermos. Srkdqltr May 13 #27

I think I had the same one! flor-de-jasmim May 13 #31

;-{) Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier Goonch May 13 #30

Quickdraw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound PufPuf23 May 13 #32

A simple black and red tartan vanamonde May 13 #33

I'm was going to say, they're quite collectible TexasBushwhacker May 14 #40

Roy Rogers and Trigger MoonlightHillFarm May 13 #34

I had a Wagon Train Covered Wagon lunch Box Wolf Frankula May 13 #35

Brown bag club here, too. We had Fat Albert thermoses for milk Alpeduez21 May 14 #36

No. My parents either sprang for the school lunch, or sent me to school with a bagged lunch. Aristus May 14 #37

A brown paper bag when I ate my lunch at school. lucca18 May 14 #38

Batman and robin from the 1960 tv series. The bat. Log on one side and a scene AllaN01Bear May 14 #39

A brown paper bag u4ic May 15 #43

No! We lived just within the one mile distance that you had to go home for lunch. Fla Dem May 15 #44