What kind of lunchbox did you have when you were growing up? Perhaps, I should have said lunchboxes, because you may have had more than one. I don’t remember having one at all. I do remember lunchboxes of all sorts and kinds from my childhood, but the only one I had was not a box but a brown-paper bag. My dad talked about taking his lunch to school in a syrup can. If you are around my age, you probably heard that same story from your dad. He may have also told you how he had to walk to school through the snow…and uphill both going and coming.
When I was in the sixth grade, my school tore down, or moved out, our old lunchroom to make room for a new cafeteria. That year, we either had to purchase a sandwich at school or take our own lunch. That was the year I employed the brown-paper sacks. No, not for the reason you may be thinking. Mine usually contained a banana sandwich, which would turn dark by lunchtime, or a tuna-salad sandwich I hoped didn’t turn anything before lunch!
If you had a lunchbox, you were fortunate. If you had several, perhaps even a new one every year, you were really blessed. What if you had 5,000 of them? Allen Woodall, of Columbus, Georgia, does indeed have somewhere around 5,000 lunchboxes. In fact, his world-famous Lunch Box Museum houses the largest collection in the world…