Lunchbox: Inside and Out

By Jack Mingo and Erin Berrett

Book Overview

Comic Books, airstream trailers, 1960s TV shows ... all are indelibly etched in the american pop culture landscape. but if there's one little corner of our past that's been overlooked, it's the lunchbox. Hyped by manufacturers of the time, stuffed with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and thermoses leaking chocolate milk, carted from suburban split-levels to schoolyards across the country for four decades, these compact forms of portable art embody a whole world of memory and nostalgia. From outer space to superheroes, from cowboys to cartoons, in metal or nifty vinyl ... here, for the first time, is the whole colorful history of one of the coolest collectibles of our time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060595191
• ISBN13: 9780060595197
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Lunchbox Picture Book

This is a nice colorful book with lots of pictures of classic lunchboxes. This is not a price guide book.

An entertaining read for collectors of all kinds!

I was really surprised by this book, as I have never collected lunch boxes and don't ever intend to, but I still loved it! As a fellow collector (of vintage toys) I really appreciated the broad overview of the lunch box collecting world. The categories are divided up well, with boxes from all eras and genres shown. The full colour photos are top notch, with alternate views shown when relevant. The descriptions of each box are especially enjoyable, with many interesting and humorous anecdotes included. The only negative thing I could think of was the value/price guide, which uses a certain number of ($) dollar signs to signify approximate worth. I found myself constantly referring back to the start of the book to check values. I think this book would appeal to most readers who have a "collector's soul" but I can't tell you whether or not it is valuable to a seasoned lunch box collector, 'cause I aint one!