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Post by goodnight on Dec 28, 2023 23:51:16 GMT -5
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Post by RebeccaLee on Jan 1, 2024 9:15:39 GMT -5
Here I thought we were going to discuss what kids took for lunch in the 30s. 🤣
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Post by Easton on Jan 1, 2024 11:13:43 GMT -5
I never had a lunch box. It was only a 10-minute walk to my school so I had to walk home for lunch. It was only on the occasional bad-weather day that we could take a bagged lunch.
Besides, when The Waltons started on television, I was beginning university and I would have looked pretty silly taking a Waltons lunch box with me on the university bus.
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Post by RebeccaLee on Jan 1, 2024 13:43:23 GMT -5
Back in the 30s lunches were bread and butter sandwiches, boiled eggs and baked potatoes in the winter put in your pockets to keep your hands warm. In my time in school lunches were eaten at our desk. Peanut butter and jam or honey, egg salad and as a treat wagon wheels
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Post by goodnight on Jan 1, 2024 18:02:35 GMT -5
Here I thought we were going to discuss what kids took for lunch in the 30s. 🤣 When my grandmother went to school in the 1920's and 30's, they carried lunch pails. She told me a story of how some bigger boys were picking on her youngest brother on his first day of school. She and an older sister and the brother that was in between her and the youngest brother were defending them. She ended up hitting one of the bully boys with her lunch pail. Didn't one of the girls in Little House On The Prairie do that to someone bullying them? |
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Post by Mrs. Ginny on Jan 19, 2024 17:28:04 GMT -5
The Walton's Lunch Box came out on the market in 1973. That was the year my 2nd daughter was born. My first daughter was born in 1971. I do wish I would have been on top of things back then as I loved the show and bought them these lunch boxes for when they started school a few years later in the 70's. They would have been the most popular girls in the entire elementary school.  When everyone else would have had there Disco lunch boxes they would have been sporting the coolest Waltons lunch boxes. |
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Jan 19, 2024 17:58:51 GMT -5
The Walton's Lunch Box came out on the market in 1973. That was the year my 2nd daughter was born. My first daughter was born in 1971. I do wish I would have been on top of things back then as I loved the show and bought them these lunch boxes for when they started school a few years later in the 70's. They would have been the most popular girls in the entire elementary school. When everyone else would have had there Disco lunch boxes they would have been sporting the coolest Waltons lunch boxes. Both my parents were born in 1973. I've seen photos of my mum in first grade and I know she had a Bionic Woman lunchbox. My dad says he remembers having a Fonzie lunchbox from Happy Days.😀 |
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Post by patriciaanne on Jan 19, 2024 18:37:47 GMT -5
The Walton's Lunch Box came out on the market in 1973. That was the year my 2nd daughter was born. My first daughter was born in 1971. I do wish I would have been on top of things back then as I loved the show and bought them these lunch boxes for when they started school a few years later in the 70's. They would have been the most popular girls in the entire elementary school. When everyone else would have had there Disco lunch boxes they would have been sporting the coolest Waltons lunch boxes. Both my parents were born in 1973. I've seen photos of my mum in first grade and I know she had a Bionic Woman lunchbox. My dad says he remembers having a Fonzie lunchbox from Happy Days.😀 I enjoyed both of those shows! |
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Post by Mrs. Ginny on Jan 19, 2024 20:38:53 GMT -5
I also enjoyed both of those shows. There are so many great classic television shows from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
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Post by noplacelikehome on Jan 20, 2024 17:02:36 GMT -5
I’ve seen the Waltons lunch boxes and thermos at Antique stores. The ones I’ve seen are $100 or more. A little worn and rusty too. I’ve been tempted to purchase one, but haven’t yet.
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Post by Mrs. Ginny on Jan 20, 2024 18:09:29 GMT -5
I’ve seen the Waltons lunch boxes and thermos at Antique stores. The ones I’ve seen are $100 or more. A little worn and rusty too. I’ve been tempted to purchase one, but haven’t yet. I would consider purchasing one if I ever saw one at an antique store and the lunch box wasn't too rusty and beat up. I would pay $100 or more. I am not sure if I would go as high as $500 for one, but it would be nice to have one. |
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Post by jaydub87 on Jan 20, 2024 22:47:19 GMT -5
There are several on eBay right now for less than $100 if anyone is interested. Not really the type of thing I collect, but someone here may be interested.
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Post by carol on Jan 21, 2024 22:13:24 GMT -5
Here is what it looks like. Front and back.   |
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Post by Easton on Jan 22, 2024 9:09:00 GMT -5
^ The Thermos is the key. It's most of the value.
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Post by tommyc on Jan 22, 2024 13:00:46 GMT -5
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When everyone else would have had there Disco lunch boxes they would have been sporting the coolest Waltons lunch boxes. 
