3 Servings of Lunch-Box Trivia
Pass this lunch-time gossip around the cafeteria.
The first character to grace a lunch box? Cowboy Hopalong Cassidy, in 1950.
By 1972, manufacturers were switching to plastic molded boxes from metal ones to save costs and ward off injuries caused by sharp metal edges. The final metal lunch box, featuring Rambo, was made in 1987.
In 2000, an absentee bidder at a Boston auction paid a whopping $11,500 for a 1954 Superman lunch box and thermos.
