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This was my lunch pale from 50 years ago.I carried either peanut butter and jelly or lebannon bologna with mayo and american cheese.
After the thermos broke,I had to buy milk at school for a couple of pennies. Funny how some things stick with you over the decades.
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Thank you,Bellin
wow you had to have the coolest lunch pail in school ! Love it RonM ! You ate same lunch I did too :-) but hold the mayo .
Thanks Manikin!
Thats quite amazing, that you still have it, wonder if mine is in some old dump, rotting somewhere, totally vanished by now, or has been recycled !~Phil
Very cool Ron !!!!!!!!!!
Why thank you,Hedge & Phil!
thank you Kerry
Your welcome, sorry I missed it for so long.