Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images Before you could order food from across town and get it delivered right to your school ...

What does the word "vintage" conjure up for you? For us, it's homemade chocolate chip cookies, red and white checkered tablecloths, home-cooked Sunday dinners, and that whole Donna Reed fantasy life.

If you're of a certain age, you probably remember your first clunky metal lunch box. Emblazoned with everything from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Barbie, these tin containers were a required ...

Niki Burnsworth, store manager at Crown Antiques Mall in the Uniontown Mall, displays a collection of lunch boxes for sale at the store. Lunch boxes, a pop culture icon, are enjoying a resurgence in ...

Our Tools of the Trade series is exploring some of the icons of schools and education. It was made of shiny, bright pink plastic with a Little Mermaid sticker on the front, and I carried it with me ...

What exactly is the appeal of a lunch box? They are, after all, literally a box, or a pail, for carrying food. A metal or a plastic box with some decoration on it might look better than a paper bag, ...

Back when we were kids, metal was in — at least in our lunch boxes. Often branded with the iconic characters of our time, they traipsed back and forth to school with us and became sturdy, constant ...

Back in the day, attention to detail and craft were much more important than they are now, at least for a lot of the things in our lives. Tin lunch boxes with beautiful designs used to be the standard ...

What does the word "vintage" conjure up for you? For us, it's homemade chocolate chip cookies, red and white checkered tablecloths, home-cooked Sunday dinners, and that whole Donna Reed fantasy life.

Our Tools of the Trade series is exploring some of the icons of schools and education. It was made of shiny, bright pink plastic with a Little Mermaid sticker on the front, and I carried it with me ...

This steel lunch box, made by Aladdin Industries in 1950, was the first to bear a licensed image, and helped Aladdin launch a new product line that would last for decades. Hopalong Cassidy was a ...