Vintage Lunch Boxes and Thermoses

Vintage 1970s Lunch Boxes Revisited: When Pop Culture Ruled the Playground
By Maribeth Keane and Lisa Hix — The most popular lunch boxes for kids in the '70s and '80s were the ones that wouldn't get you beat up in school. It was fine to go to school with a lunch box for a popular TV show, such as the ones from my childhood like “Speed Buggy,” “The Flintstones,” or “The Incredible Hulk.” But you wouldn't want to carry something like “The Waltons” because that was just not cool. In the '70s, you also had music groups like the Osmonds on lunch boxes. Bee Gees lunch boxes were popular to own....

The Colors of Fiesta
By Maribeth Keane — I started as a collector and I’m a web designer, so I thought I would design a website from my passion. I threw it up there and people just found me and it started to take off. Fiesta is made in West Virginia, and I’m from West Virginia originally. I was a thrift store fanatic in college, and I would see this unmarked colored dishware that just really caught my eye. That was probably Riviera, because Fiesta would be marked. People would know Fiesta, but Riviera wouldn’t be marked, so...