Mid-70's era

I was jealous of those of my classmates who had lunch boxes. We were paper bag folk.

I think it was outlined in blue

My Father was very frugal, one of those "squeeze the nickel til the buffalo shits" guys.

I am not quite as tight as he was, but only because I have practiced to be more rational about spending.

I had a Lawman lunchbox, with a glass thermos. Lawman was a western on TV during the early 60's. Broke the thermos sometime durning the first year i had it, brown bags after that.

It was mostly school provided lunches or brown
bagging it.

a Red Ryder book.

Howdy Doody

by Thermos

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.

I dropped it and then glass exploded. No milk that day.

It's surprising to me that I can remember that it was metal, but I have absolutely no recollection of the picture. This was in the early to mid-60s.

that re-purposed into a pot stash when in high school.

Got a Summer job and the stash box was back to being a lunch box that my mother would fill with lunch.

One morning my lunch was in a gray plastic workman's lunchbox plus a new metal Stanley thermos.

My mother had given the Quickdraw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound lunchbox to the neighbor daughter. Told me I was too old to have a child's lunchbox.

here is an image search of the same lunchbox:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=quickdraw+mcgraw+and+huckleberry+hound+lunch+box&form=HDRSC3&first=1

Not sure why I selected this design at the age of 6. Perhaps even at that early age, as now, I had no interest in being a walking corporate advertiser.
Now being offered on eBay for $50.

Though many no longer have their Thermos. In mint condition a special one can go for $200 and up.

The sides were the wagon sides.

The cups always broke but that’s cause during recess we played catch or a tackling game using the thermoses.

I was wildly out of step with the other schoolkids in the 1970's, all of whom had the latest movie/TV series metal lunchboxes. By the time my parents got around to getting me a cheap plastic lunchbox, themed lunchboxes were out of fashion, and all the kids were bringing bagged lunches.

But, most times I would walk home and have lunch with my mother.
My favorite sandwich was salami with mustard.

On the other.

But most of the time, I ran home so I could watch The Flintstones at noon, then ran back for 1pm.