Lunchboxes in the 70s
Saturday
morning and prime time television are more prolific than ever. For
every new show produced, a lunchbox is made, as children become walking
advertisements for The Bugaloos, Hong Kong Phooey, Battlestar Galactica and The Brady Bunch.
Thermoses make the transition from steel to plastic. A group of
concerned mothers in Florida, worried that metal lunchboxes are being
used as weapons, convince the state to outlaw their production and
sale, and the first plastic boxes are made. Lunchboxes reflect trends
and social activities of the day from skateboarding to disco dancing to
bicentennial patriotism to BMX biking. Teenage heartthrob performers
invade both the music and the lunchbox scene, as Donny and Marie, KISS,
The Bee Gees and others get immortalized on the lunchboxes of future
rockers. |
