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June 1942. "Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Workmen on porch of commissary." Photo by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.
As an "old one" I remember carrying a metal lunch box like this to school and later to work. Inside the top was a metal thermos bottle held in with a wire clip. Later kids had rectangular metal lunch boxes. All metal lunch boxes are now classified as a dangerous weapon and illegal for school kids. I suppose we couldn't take our switch blade knives and whittle now either during recess!
Hopefully it wasn't a sudden gush of water.
Can anyone explain the device in the lower right, it resembles a modified #10 can, it's before my time.
[It was something the Old Ones called a "lunchbox." - Dave]
The three younger guys could probably do pretty well in the Movies.
The one on the right has the James Dean thing going on, more than a decade before James Dean.
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