My dad was a farmer and took a thermos full of coffee every day. I remember the center breaking and another was bought and replaced. Thanks for the memories.
My elementary school was next door to the King Seeley Thermos Co. What I remember were the "mountains" of glass that were kept between the factories and our schoolyard. Only the road entering the main office building separated the two.There was fencing around the schoolyard, but not around these gigantic mounds of glass. Difficult to even imagine today, but this was the 1960's. I also remember there being an annual clearance sale where you could buy "seconds" for $1.00. Most had only minor cosmetic flaws, so it was a great deal. In summer our family spent our time on Long Island Sound. We owned a cottage which was about a five minute walk to the beach. Each morning, my parents rose early, and with their thermos of hot coffee walked out to the end of the breakwater to sit on the rocks and enjoy their coffee, the tranquility of the sunrise, and the sea. Thank you for the memory.
Hi wendyw! Wow - what a great story and to go to school right next door to the thermos factory! Amazing they didn't fence in those mounds of glass - but things were different then. I would have gone crazy at the $1.00 sale!! I can imagine those times that your parents shared with their thermos of coffee watching the sunrise over the water were meaningful. Thanks so much for sharing!
I bought a new thermos before being deployed to the middle east in 1990 for Desert Storm. It's the classic green anodized metal model. I still have it and it still keeps my coffee warm all day long.
Hi Mike - I think you have the Stanley/Aladdin thermos with a stainless steel insert. These are wonderful thermoses and virtually indestructible. It should last you a long time! Thanks!
Thank you so much for the Thermos episode.. My wife still has her Thermos and lunchbox that was a Peanuts characters lunchbox with a thermos that she carried to school. We treasure that lunchbox, You didn't mention the Aladin stainless steel thermos. I have carried the green and stainless Aladin thermos for over 50 years. i have a regular quart thermos as well as a wide mouth for soups. I still carry them to work. Still keeps my coffee hot as if it was fresh. They were unbreakable as the liner was stainless steel. I also have an old J.C. Higgins Sears thermos my Dad gave me with the glass liner that works like a charm. It is in the same brown 'and white color from the 1960's you have shown with the original glass liner. The green and white Stanley Aladin thermoses are still produced. They are extremely useful and durable. Yeti can't hold a candle to these vintage thermoses. God bless you for keeping these thermoses alive! Keep up the good work, and may God bless you, Maryann, and Ralph. Keep the videos coming. By the way, what about cottage episodes? I love them!
Hi amflashback! How wonderful that your wife still has her Peanuts thermos and lunchbox from her school days! I didn't mention the Aladdin stainless steel thermos because I didn't have one to show - I don't have one in my collection! These are hard to find because no one wants to part with them! They are very heavy-duty and were built to last a lifetime. I'm sure I'll run across one someday. I don't know that much about modern thermoses and how effective they are, but these old ones work beautifully and I continue to use them. I no longer have the cottage, so unfortunately there won't be any new episodes from there. Thanks so much!
My instant memory was taking a thermos filled with hot chocolate to watch the Rose Parade. Dad would drop us off near the parade route when it was still pre dawn so we could secure a viewing spot. 👍🏼👍🏼
You brought out just a few, eh?? Lol! My first thermos came with my lunch box and featured Mork & Mindy on it! Thank You for bringing back some great memories.
Just discovered your channel trying to watch/catch up on all your videos. So happy to see a Thermos video. I am a Thermos/Vacuum Bottle Junkie. I love the "time machine" aspects of them.
My Dad used his Stanley thermos & lunch pail every day back in the '60's. I loved it so much I bought my hubby one when Costco had them out a few years ago as a retro replica. We have used it! thanks for another great video!
Hi Yellow Vest! I remember seeing those heavy-duty Stanley thermoses a lot when I was a kid - many people I knew who were skilled trades or worked in manufacturing and they used it every day. Thanks!
Kevin, I nearly had forgotten about those old Thermos bottles and Gosh I can’t remember the last time I saw a man carrying a lunch pail with a Thermos to work. I had a Partridge Family lunchbox and one day I was running home from school and fell ......that was the end of the glass inside the thermos, but I still have the lunch box somewhere in the cellar. Great memories and thanks for posting!
Hi MrScottie68! I'll bet your Partridge Family lunchbox was pretty groovy! It was always sad to break the thermos. I'll bet many more lunchboxes survived without their companion thermos! Thanks for sharing your memory!
Hi Kevin I always enjoy your videos, but I especially enjoy the vintage appliance ones. They always bring back so many wonderful memories. As always take care. Stay safe.
Awesome video! I just bought an Aladdin brand thermos that's red with big black diamonds around it. I managed to get one brand new with packaging, I got because it's the same one Dr Early had on the TV show "Emergency!" Season 3 episode 19.
The thermos is as American as Mom and apple pie ! I always loved the plaid motif on them , they were so eye appealing and cozy . The replacement parts were made before " planned obsolescence " was introduced to consumers . Great show 👏
I'm a asphalt truck drive and i'm on job sites, most of my career i have carried a 1950's alum. red handle dome lunchbox with a 1960's plastic exterior and tan/ red cup glass lined pint thermos. I get a lot of comments. I use a safety pin to keep the lunchbox from coming open as did workers back then.
Hi Dave - your lunchbox sound cool and a real throwback to when people took lunchboxes to work everyday - glad to hear you are still using yours! I didn't know about the safety pin - makes good sense. Thanks!
Love these vintage Thermos's.! I still use them! It is amazing how long they keep things cold or hot! People should use them more often! I didn't know that people used to be able to buy replacement parts! That is very cool! Thanks as always for sharing!
It’s fun to walk down memory lane with you guys. I’m probably your age, so I really enjoy these. I sent my daughter to school with hot soups in these. We changed several glass liners in my life. I have 2 of the plastic ones in 70’s gold and green and one with the metal ribs on the outside. I accidentally left my plaid one visiting my parents out of state years ago.
I saw a few that I have. I had the plaid lunchbox for school. Wish I had saved all that stuff. I also like the Coleman Thermos jugs. Way back I bought a couple picnic sets on eBay. They came with a bag, container for sandwiches and a thermos.
Oh I remember having thermoses, both with Thermos and Alladin. I don't recall all the lunch boxes I had, but I do recall two. One was the Snoopy lunch box with the matching Thermos with glass liner and it was housed in the top of the box and had a metal device that held it there and your lunch was below. One day the thermos fell and broke with milk in it and I recall being at lunch in 1st grade when I discovered it, and had a fit that it was broken. The only other lunchbox I recall was in 4th grade I think, and it was the embossed metal square lunch box for Adam 12, the TV show of the time and that one the box was the flat style where the thermos was laid on its side and held in place by a bent rod. By 5th grade, I'd graduated to the brown paper lunch bag. I recall my parents having two of the short, squat wide mouth Thermoses that were designed for cold foods, such as apple sauce and a bit taller one for hot foots like soup. My Mom even though she disliked getting up before 7AM, would dutifully get up and "put in her face", well, just enough to not look gross as she'd put it and make breakfast for us kids and my father and lunch too, bless her heart. She would get this little thermos out and put say, applesauce in it and tuck it in one's lunch. They had 2 of them, I do recall one was harvest gold plastic with a white insert on the lid. I later found one that may have been a touch older at an estate sale, it was off white/gray but had a blue insert, same design otherwise. I think in the 80's, I got a larger one for hot foods like soup and it may have been from Alladin but could also be Thermos in Perriwinkle blue and had been given a blue thermos that had 2 cups, one on each end and had a strap to carry it with, glass liner was utilized and it did great. I don't recall the brand, but it came from a local hardware store in several colors. The last one was purchased in the early 2000's when working at Fred Meyer, I bought a bright yellow one with a plastic liner for keep chocolate milk cold for my lunches at work. All gone now as I ended up using them less and less as time went on. Fun times growing up in the 70's when stuff like this was still quite common.
Hi John - oh, the heartbreak of hearing that glass shatter in your favorite thermos! I think many of us have been there - I know it happened to me...and more than once. Bless my mom, she always went to Kresge's and got me another one. Sounds like your mom got a lot of use out of the thermoses you had at home with making lunches for everyone. Funny how we really have gotten away from using things like thermoses now, so many people just buy lunch everyday rather than prepare their own and bring it along. When we were growing up, thermoses were commonplace. Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood They were indeed, and now everything comes prepared and in cups so one's mom if they made you lunch would grab a cold cup from the fridge and put it in your lunch, rather than opening a can of peaches, or a jar of homemade canned peaches or a container of leftovers and placed it in an insulated jar to take with you, with a spoon from the silverware drawer no less, :-) Ah, the days of yore.
Oh, how enjoyable! This brings back memories of my lunchbox as a little girl, starting first grade or soon thereafter I had a Flintstones lunchbox with the thermos inside. Then we used widemouth when first married, and we would take lunches and then taller thermoses for taking coffee or hot chocolate for a walk. My husband brought coffee from home that his dad had made and was the best tasting coffee. I just love your collections and the stories you tell of the past uses of things. My husband and I are 67 and reminiscing is a great pastime of ours. Keep these collection series coming.
I had one with funky daisies on a bright green background on it in the 70's as part of a soft sided lunch kit that zipped up...so cool - lol. Brings back memories of taking lunch to school, I remember mom putting hot Campbell's vegetable soup in it on snowy mornings- thanks Kevin and Mary Anne!
We had thermos in our matched lunch box and mom bought us an additional short wide mouth to send soups,stew , or pudding in (home made of course) . and we had two of the larger ones for picnics at lake and camping. Dad had a tall one he took coffee in to refill his cup on commute to work.
Hi Colleen! Thanks for sharing your thermos memories! Those lunch boxes with matching thermoses were the coolest! I'll bet that homemade pudding in the thermos was great at lunchtime!! Thanks!
Thank you, Kevin and Mary Ann for a great video! I was hoping you would do one on thermoses. I had the brown wide mouth model from Aladdin that was in your "odd ball" section. I purchased it around 1981 in a Woolworth's store. I was a poor college student at the time and used it many days to save money on lunches. It took me through my student teacher experience and into the first year or two of my teaching career. Then the inevitable happened -- I dropped it and the glass liner shattered. I've had a few thermoses since then, but none kept food as piping hot as that one did. I wish they still made them. I'd buy a new one in a heart beat!
Hi Robert! A great story about your thermos! Oh, how I miss Woolworth's! Glad that thermos got you through school and into the start of your teaching career. I remember a few of my elementary teachers bringing a thermos to school with them. By high school the teachers went to the teachers' lounge where there was always a pot of coffee brewing ;-) There is something about the way those old glass thermoses work - they really keep things hot a long time. Thanks for sharing your memory!
my Dad was a construction worker, a Thermos was essential to take perked coffee on cold winter mornings, plaid was optional, sandwich packed in wax paper and pecan sandies in a big metal lunch box
Hi Briney - thanks for sharing that great memory! Sandwiches in waxed paper! I seem to remember my mom using these sandwich bags that were made out of waxed paper. The days before all the plastic! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood Yep remember those too, though we never used them but do recall seeing them in the stores, I think they still make them if not mistaken. We just used the Glad plastic sandwich bags that the flap you flipped over to close.
I had an Alvin and the Chipmunks plastic covered lunchbox with matching Thermos and by some miracle it never broke. I didn't use it much and it may still be in my mom's kitchen cabinet in the back. Mom used a stainless steel Thermos that survived a drop from the roof of her Dodge Dart with a few dents. She taught homebound students out of that car and took her coffee with her. Thermos also made a picnic set with two large Thermos bottles and a container for food sitting in between, in a large zippered case. Thanks for the video!
Hi Jonathan! Alvin and the Chipmunks! Haven't thought of them in a long time!! That was a fun lunchbox to have! Those stainless steel models were pretty sturdy. I might have one of those picnic sets - it had a tan and plaid bag with a zipper and a red plastic box for sandwiches, etc. with two matching plaid thermoses. I'll have to dig it out for a summer picnic!! Thanks so much!
I have my Thermos from school, and the one my grandfather carried to work, from the 1960s. I went through I don’t know how many, because the glass lining would break. Glad that phased out!
Just yesterday my wife found a picnic thermos set at a habitat for humanity store in Amarillo texas. Twenty bucks all in tact brand new never been used. Too cool!!!
Hi Kev! Always amazed at your great collection!!! My grandma had one of the large plaid jug thermoses you showed and she would pour her sun tea in it and add ice and we would have it on the picnic table when I was a kid. She would add the ice and it would stay cold all afternoon for when we needed a cold drink 😊 What great memories!! Stay well!!! Hope you guys were all able to get vaccinated!! All the best!! Jeff xo
Hi Jeff!! Sounds like your grandma knew how to keep her sun tea cold in the summertime! A great memory! Thanks for sharing it! Yes, we are all vaccinated! Thanks!!
Hi Andrew! I'll bet you loved taking that Snoopy lunchbox to school! So many great lunch boxes back then and you always felt special when you got a new one! Thanks so much!
Does my heart good to see all those thermos's. I love and collect them. Used to take hot soup to school for lunch in mine and hot tea when it was winter and i had to drive
I have a bunch of vintage thermoses. Alladin, thermos, king seely and uno-vac. I have small mouth and wide mouth. I use the wide mouth ones in winter for soup and I use the small mouth ones all year long. I would be lost without my vintage thermoses.
Just discovered your channel. I collect vintage appliances (coffee percolators, toasters, waffle irons, thermoses, etc.) but nowhere near your level. My memories of thermoses are of the Thermos of coffee my mom would pack (like the first red with black banded Thermos you showed) for our vacations. We would always stop at a rest area and have donuts (which my dad would pick up the night before) and coffee. I remember one trip where when my mom opened the door to get out of the car at the rest area and the Thermos fell out and hit the ground shattering. My dad was not happy. Years later, I carried a Thermos of coffee to work every day. It was already something most people didn't do, so everyone would always kid me. One of my coworkers in an act of horsing around knocked it out of my hands not realizing there was a glass liner inside. It shattered of course. I still haven't let him forget that to this day.
Hi Tom! Glad you found us! Those old glass thermoses worked wonderfully, but sometimes didn't survive a drop! Sounds like you lost a couple of them. Some stores sold replacement glass liners, because it was not unusual for people to break them. Thanks for sharing those memories!
Thanks, Cooking from the Loft! I don't have a lunch box collection - just not enough room LOL! Something always appealed to me about the thermoses. Thanks!
These are really good videos. I found them after getting my hands on a WestBen hotpot ( orange model ), since then been looking at videos of all their products and found you guys :) sadly not enough videos of all the cool weird odditys I've found from weatbend out there. Maybe a future video idea for you guys ?
When I started 1st grade in the fall of 1971 I had a Peanuts lunchbox that had the matching thermos. All these years later I have no idea what happened to the lunchbox but I still have the thermos with it's original glass liner intact. I think it was the next year that thermoses in lunchboxes went from having glass liners in metal outer shells to being all plastic inside and out with some kind of foam insulation. They weren't as good at keeping things cold. My milk would be more lukecool than cold by lunchtime. I also have a quart size Aladdin Stanley Steel thermos that I use occasionally still. They still make them only the new ones are from China and are much thinner steel and a lot lighter. Mine is made in USA and built like a tank and weighs about as much.
Hi tallboyyyy! How great that you still have your Peanuts thermos! Usually, it's the thermos that gets broken or lost and the lunchbox remains. Those older Stanley thermoses were made very heavy-duty and the one you have should last forever! Thanks!
Now, people use the Yeti style insulated tumblers for coffee they bring from home. My husband does that every day. It keeps coffee hot for hours and you don't have to pour it out into a cup each time to drink. You just have to be more careful to keep it upright. We still have his old green Stanley thermos that fits under the handle of the matching insulated lunch box. He hasn't used them in years. We have modern, all plastic versions of those half gallon picnic thermoses. My husband would take one to work in the summer and I took them when I went places with the kids. It saved a lot of money by not buying drinks, as well as kept a lot of plastic bottles and fast food drink cups out of the landfill.
Hi keepsmilin'! Thermoses are really practical, and they do save money and waste. Somehow many people got away from using them for the convenience of not having to wash, etc. It has created a lot of plastic waste, that's for sure. Thanks!
Kevin, I so enjoyed this video and seeing your collection. You are wrong though about the glass liners, the glass liners are doubles walled, formed with a hollow space and a vacuum was applied and then sealed at at the bottom glass tip to slow the transfer of heat either in or out, take out a glass liner and you will see this, very good design. Some vacuum thermoses were made with stainless steel vacuum liners, like Stanley that are very sturdy.
Hi Brett! Thank you so much for the explanation of the vacuum around the glass liners - now this makes sense as to how they work. They are amazingly effective, although a bit fragile. I see the advantage of the stainless steel liner! Thanks again!
@@cavalcadeoffood Hi Kevin, The glass liners are double walled and hollow and this is where the vacuum is created between the glass layers, this is why they are so fragile and easy to break, kind of like a light bulb with the vacuum inside. If you look inside the rubber plug at the base of the replacement liner you have you will see where under vacuum the fragile pinch off point is to seal the vacuum inside. Kevin you do such a fine job with all your videos and I have so much fun watching them and trying some of your recipes, I realizes I know a few people you were with at the washer/appliance event, it looked like a lot of fun.
@@brettster3331 So glad you enjoy the videos! The vintage washer/appliance group is a good time - wish we got together more often! Thanks again for the info!
Wow ! Right off the bat I knew I had seen him somewhere before and now I know ! Thats Mr. Buxton that told Francis his son that he could have anything he wanted for his birthday . He still looks great wearing an ascot but he really should have his own name on his jumpsuit . Anyway , I'm so glad Pee Wee got his bike back .
Hey there! Thanks for featuring your collection! I will be purchasing a vintage Thermos similar to the one at 9:33 I think it is a model 2402, Filler 24F, Stopper 722, Cup 84A73. However, I want to replace the 722 stopper to another which is twist & pour or a press button etc. So that I can pour water into my yerba mate (south american drink) without having to remove the lid entirely. Would you please give ms any tips on finding a fitting stopper? What are the dimensions? I'm thinking of using Ali express to find an alternative stopper. Thanks again for the time and for your beautiful channel!
Late 60s I had a mini lunch box with flower power designs. Some kids kicked it all around the playground and destroyed it. I was and still am devastated. How could my classmates be like that?
They don’t make them like that anymore. I’ve had the dickens of a time finding one that holds the heat/cold for any length. Just purchased another one Saturday at a hunting store near me. Hope this one does it. Thanks for video.
These are fun. Love the Thermoses. There is something about picnic and travel ware. We never went on picnics but these items still bring back hellish car travel memories. I have a Hamilton Scotch - Car Snac with two Sportsman bottles... you have one in green, and it hangs over a car seat. For a dollar, couldn't resist. The Pelican has a great look and I've never seen one.
HI bg147 - these were popular to take on road trips. Funny how we wouldn't think of stopping any buying things to drink - we brought something from home with us. I've seen those that hang over the bench seat in the car - this was before we had 10 cup holders everywhere! Thanks!
Hi DD Waters! No, I don't collect the lunch boxes with thermoses, but I know a lot of people do and I think some of them are quite valuable. I wish I had the ones from my childhood! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood I have an entire Garfield Collection. My favorites are the yellow and the red lunch boxes including the Thermos's. I only display them. 😊
Thanks for sharing. I have on a hunt for these at my local goodwills, but most of the have 3 silver spots under the glass lining, do you happen to know what they are? and i f they affect the thermos function? thank you.
Hi Idalia - not sure what those silver spots could be (might be a result of manufacturing the glass liner), but I would test by using hot water and see if it retains the heat. Thanks!
Baffling how they actually sold replacement glass liners, sad we've actually moved backwards in some cases. I was looking at my stand mixer the other day and how the electric motor brushes can be swapped in a matter of seconds. My mind was blown.
A better title would have been "The Vacuum Bottle Collection". Thermos was a major manufacturer, but it's like calling all tissues a Kleenex or carbonated beverages Coke. I know that I'm nit picking... sorry!!! 😁😁😁 I used to have a classic green Stanley vaccum bottle that I used for hot coffee when I went ice fishing. I don't think I ever owned a Thermos brand vacuum bottle. 😲😳😳 Today, designer vaccum water bottles are all the rage!! Yeti is now the new Thermos so to speak. Very fascinating! Take care!! Be well!
Hi Greg! Funny you should mention the name "Thermos." In the early 60's there was a lawsuit about Aladdin marketing "thermos bottles" and Thermos sued, but a judge ruled that thermos (lowercase "t") was a generic term and could be used by other makers. I've seen the vacuum water bottles in the stores, so I guess there's nothing new under the sun! LOL! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood Thermos is more recognizable than vacuum bottle anyway, but it's part of our vernacular like Kleenex. I currently have a Simply Modern (Slm) brand water bottle and it keeps beverages cold up to like 8 hours! I can leave it over night on my night stand and in the morning the ice is still mostly solid!!
I took a Thermos to school every day. I had a plaid metal lunch pail that had metal arms inside to hold the Thermos in place. The Thermoses back then had a glass core so if you accidentally dropped it on the ground your juice or milk would be full of glass shards. They would never make them like that today. Especially not for kids. 👧🏾👦🏾🧒
I bought an Alladin Thermos at a Vintage store recently and I took it apart to clean it. I can't get the bottom back on. The thread just won't line up. It's frustrating.
Sometimes those older plastic thermos bottoms are tricky to put back on. You might try putting a very thin coat of vaseline on the threads and try to attach it.
On the wide mouth ones with the plastic insert for say soup, how do you pre heat them? Do you take the glass out and heat the glass up? Or just preheat the plastic insert? Or both? Thanks!
My dad was a farmer and took a thermos full of coffee every day. I remember the center breaking and another was bought and replaced. Thanks for the memories.
My elementary school was next door to the King Seeley Thermos Co. What I remember were the "mountains" of glass that were kept between the factories and our schoolyard. Only the road entering the main office building separated the two.There was fencing around the schoolyard, but not around these gigantic mounds of glass. Difficult to even imagine today, but this was the 1960's. I also remember there being an annual clearance sale where you could buy "seconds" for $1.00. Most had only minor cosmetic flaws, so it was a great deal. In summer our family spent our time on Long Island Sound. We owned a cottage which was about a five minute walk to the beach. Each morning, my parents rose early, and with their thermos of hot coffee walked out to the end of the breakwater to sit on the rocks and enjoy their coffee, the tranquility of the sunrise, and the sea. Thank you for the memory.
Hi wendyw! Wow - what a great story and to go to school right next door to the thermos factory! Amazing they didn't fence in those mounds of glass - but things were different then. I would have gone crazy at the $1.00 sale!! I can imagine those times that your parents shared with their thermos of coffee watching the sunrise over the water were meaningful. Thanks so much for sharing!
I bought a new thermos before being deployed to the middle east in 1990 for Desert Storm. It's the classic green anodized metal model. I still have it and it still keeps my coffee warm all day long.
Hi Mike - I think you have the Stanley/Aladdin thermos with a stainless steel insert. These are wonderful thermoses and virtually indestructible. It should last you a long time! Thanks!
Thank you so much for the Thermos episode.. My wife still has her Thermos and lunchbox that was a Peanuts characters lunchbox with a thermos that she carried to school. We treasure that lunchbox, You didn't mention the Aladin stainless steel thermos. I have carried the green and stainless Aladin thermos for over 50 years. i have a regular quart thermos as well as a wide mouth for soups. I still carry them to work. Still keeps my coffee hot as if it was fresh. They were unbreakable as the liner was stainless steel. I also have an old J.C. Higgins Sears thermos my Dad gave me with the glass liner that works like a charm. It is in the same brown 'and white color from the 1960's you have shown with the original glass liner. The green and white Stanley Aladin thermoses are still produced. They are extremely useful and durable. Yeti can't hold a candle to these vintage thermoses. God bless you for keeping these thermoses alive! Keep up the good work, and may God bless you, Maryann, and Ralph. Keep the videos coming. By the way, what about cottage episodes? I love them!
Hi amflashback! How wonderful that your wife still has her Peanuts thermos and lunchbox from her school days! I didn't mention the Aladdin stainless steel thermos because I didn't have one to show - I don't have one in my collection! These are hard to find because no one wants to part with them! They are very heavy-duty and were built to last a lifetime. I'm sure I'll run across one someday. I don't know that much about modern thermoses and how effective they are, but these old ones work beautifully and I continue to use them. I no longer have the cottage, so unfortunately there won't be any new episodes from there. Thanks so much!
My instant memory was taking a thermos filled with hot chocolate to watch the Rose Parade. Dad would drop us off near the parade route when it was still pre dawn so we could secure a viewing spot. 👍🏼👍🏼
Hi Jane! What a great memory! I'm sure the parade was even better with a thermos of hot chocolate at the ready! Thanks!!
You brought out just a few, eh?? Lol! My first thermos came with my lunch box and featured Mork & Mindy on it! Thank You for bringing back some great memories.
Hi Grace Love88!! Wow - Mork & Mindy!! How cool was that? Glad this one brought back fun memories!
Just discovered your channel trying to watch/catch up on all your videos. So happy to see a Thermos video. I am a Thermos/Vacuum Bottle Junkie. I love the "time machine" aspects of them.
Hi Powerline Kid - so glad you found the channel!! Thanks for watching and good to meet another fan of the Thermos!
My Dad used his Stanley thermos & lunch pail every day back in the '60's. I loved it so much I bought my hubby one when Costco had them out a few years ago as a retro replica. We have used it! thanks for another great video!
Hi Yellow Vest! I remember seeing those heavy-duty Stanley thermoses a lot when I was a kid - many people I knew who were skilled trades or worked in manufacturing and they used it every day. Thanks!
Kevin, I nearly had forgotten about those old Thermos bottles and Gosh I can’t remember the last time I saw a man carrying a lunch pail with a Thermos to work. I had a Partridge Family lunchbox and one day I was running home from school and fell ......that was the end of the glass inside the thermos, but I still have the lunch box somewhere in the cellar. Great memories and thanks for posting!
Hi MrScottie68! I'll bet your Partridge Family lunchbox was pretty groovy! It was always sad to break the thermos. I'll bet many more lunchboxes survived without their companion thermos! Thanks for sharing your memory!
Thanks for sharing your collection! It brings back memories of my dad taking a thermos to work!
You're welcome, John! I think a lot of dads took a thermos to work with them! Thanks!
Hi Kevin I always enjoy your videos, but I especially enjoy the vintage appliance ones. They always bring back so many wonderful memories. As always take care. Stay safe.
Hi Bonnie - so glad you enjoy the videos with the vintage things! I really enjoy doing these! Thanks!
Awesome video! I just bought an Aladdin brand thermos that's red with big black diamonds around it. I managed to get one brand new with packaging, I got because it's the same one Dr Early had on the TV show "Emergency!" Season 3 episode 19.
Hi Nick! That thermos sounds cool - love that it matches the one Dr. Early had!! Enjoy!
The thermos is as American as Mom and apple pie ! I always loved the plaid motif on them , they were so eye appealing and cozy . The replacement parts were made before " planned obsolescence " was introduced to consumers . Great show 👏
Hi lightmarker - it was a time when you just fixed what you had instead of always going out any buying a new thing. Thanks for watching!
I'm a asphalt truck drive and i'm on job sites, most of my career i have carried a 1950's alum. red handle dome lunchbox with a 1960's plastic exterior and tan/ red cup glass lined pint thermos. I get a lot of comments. I use a safety pin to keep the lunchbox from coming open as did workers back then.
Hi Dave - your lunchbox sound cool and a real throwback to when people took lunchboxes to work everyday - glad to hear you are still using yours! I didn't know about the safety pin - makes good sense. Thanks!
Love these vintage Thermos's.! I still use them! It is amazing how long they keep things cold or hot! People should use them more often! I didn't know that people used to be able to buy replacement parts! That is very cool! Thanks as always for sharing!
Hi TwoBrokeGuyz! Glad to hear you are using your vintage thermoses! They really work well! Thanks!
It’s fun to walk down memory lane with you guys. I’m probably your age, so I really enjoy these. I sent my daughter to school with hot soups in these. We changed several glass liners in my life. I have 2 of the plastic ones in 70’s gold and green and one with the metal ribs on the outside. I accidentally left my plaid one visiting my parents out of state years ago.
I saw a few that I have. I had the plaid lunchbox for school. Wish I had saved all that stuff. I also like the Coleman Thermos jugs. Way back I bought a couple picnic sets on eBay. They came with a bag, container for sandwiches and a thermos.
Hi Tim! Those picnic sets are very neat! Thanks!
Oh I remember having thermoses, both with Thermos and Alladin. I don't recall all the lunch boxes I had, but I do recall two. One was the Snoopy lunch box with the matching Thermos with glass liner and it was housed in the top of the box and had a metal device that held it there and your lunch was below. One day the thermos fell and broke with milk in it and I recall being at lunch in 1st grade when I discovered it, and had a fit that it was broken. The only other lunchbox I recall was in 4th grade I think, and it was the embossed metal square lunch box for Adam 12, the TV show of the time and that one the box was the flat style where the thermos was laid on its side and held in place by a bent rod. By 5th grade, I'd graduated to the brown paper lunch bag.
I recall my parents having two of the short, squat wide mouth Thermoses that were designed for cold foods, such as apple sauce and a bit taller one for hot foots like soup. My Mom even though she disliked getting up before 7AM, would dutifully get up and "put in her face", well, just enough to not look gross as she'd put it and make breakfast for us kids and my father and lunch too, bless her heart. She would get this little thermos out and put say, applesauce in it and tuck it in one's lunch. They had 2 of them, I do recall one was harvest gold plastic with a white insert on the lid. I later found one that may have been a touch older at an estate sale, it was off white/gray but had a blue insert, same design otherwise.
I think in the 80's, I got a larger one for hot foods like soup and it may have been from Alladin but could also be Thermos in Perriwinkle blue and had been given a blue thermos that had 2 cups, one on each end and had a strap to carry it with, glass liner was utilized and it did great. I don't recall the brand, but it came from a local hardware store in several colors. The last one was purchased in the early 2000's when working at Fred Meyer, I bought a bright yellow one with a plastic liner for keep chocolate milk cold for my lunches at work. All gone now as I ended up using them less and less as time went on.
Fun times growing up in the 70's when stuff like this was still quite common.
Hi John - oh, the heartbreak of hearing that glass shatter in your favorite thermos! I think many of us have been there - I know it happened to me...and more than once. Bless my mom, she always went to Kresge's and got me another one. Sounds like your mom got a lot of use out of the thermoses you had at home with making lunches for everyone. Funny how we really have gotten away from using things like thermoses now, so many people just buy lunch everyday rather than prepare their own and bring it along. When we were growing up, thermoses were commonplace. Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood They were indeed, and now everything comes prepared and in cups so one's mom if they made you lunch would grab a cold cup from the fridge and put it in your lunch, rather than opening a can of peaches, or a jar of homemade canned peaches or a container of leftovers and placed it in an insulated jar to take with you, with a spoon from the silverware drawer no less, :-) Ah, the days of yore.
I am so grateful to have found your channel, I really enjoy seeing all the vintage housewares. Thank you Kevin and Maryanne
You're welcome, Richard! Glad you found us!
Oh, how enjoyable! This brings back memories of my lunchbox as a little girl, starting first grade or soon thereafter I had a Flintstones lunchbox with the thermos inside. Then we used widemouth when first married, and we would take lunches and then taller thermoses for taking coffee or hot chocolate for a walk. My husband brought coffee from home that his dad had made and was the best tasting coffee. I just love your collections and the stories you tell of the past uses of things. My husband and I are 67 and reminiscing is a great pastime of ours. Keep these collection series coming.
Thank you for showing your collection! I just started collecting recently!
You're welcome! Have fun collecting!
I had one with funky daisies on a bright green background on it in the 70's as part of a soft sided lunch kit that zipped up...so cool - lol. Brings back memories of taking lunch to school, I remember mom putting hot Campbell's vegetable soup in it on snowy mornings- thanks Kevin and Mary Anne!
June - you may have had the grooviest thermos of all time!! A thermos of hot soup on a cold day - nothing better! Thanks!
We had thermos in our matched lunch box and mom bought us an additional short wide mouth to send soups,stew , or pudding in (home made of course) . and we had two of the larger ones for picnics at lake and camping. Dad had a tall one he took coffee in to refill his cup on commute to work.
Hi Colleen! Thanks for sharing your thermos memories! Those lunch boxes with matching thermoses were the coolest! I'll bet that homemade pudding in the thermos was great at lunchtime!! Thanks!
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Thank you, Kevin and Mary Ann for a great video! I was hoping you would do one on thermoses. I had the brown wide mouth model from Aladdin that was in your "odd ball" section. I purchased it around 1981 in a Woolworth's store. I was a poor college student at the time and used it many days to save money on lunches. It took me through my student teacher experience and into the first year or two of my teaching career. Then the inevitable happened -- I dropped it and the glass liner shattered. I've had a few thermoses since then, but none kept food as piping hot as that one did. I wish they still made them. I'd buy a new one in a heart beat!
Hi Robert! A great story about your thermos! Oh, how I miss Woolworth's! Glad that thermos got you through school and into the start of your teaching career. I remember a few of my elementary teachers bringing a thermos to school with them. By high school the teachers went to the teachers' lounge where there was always a pot of coffee brewing ;-) There is something about the way those old glass thermoses work - they really keep things hot a long time. Thanks for sharing your memory!
my Dad was a construction worker, a Thermos was essential to take perked coffee on cold winter mornings, plaid was optional, sandwich packed in wax paper and pecan sandies in a big metal lunch box
OMG - yes! Sandwiches were always wrapped in waxed paper - I totally forgot that.
Hi Briney - thanks for sharing that great memory! Sandwiches in waxed paper! I seem to remember my mom using these sandwich bags that were made out of waxed paper. The days before all the plastic! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood Yep remember those too, though we never used them but do recall seeing them in the stores, I think they still make them if not mistaken. We just used the Glad plastic sandwich bags that the flap you flipped over to close.
When I was a kid we had Thermos with a stainless steel liner. Impossible to break!
Hi Mark!! I remember when those came out - much more durable! I don't know if they even make the glass lined ones any more. Thanks!!
I had an Alvin and the Chipmunks plastic covered lunchbox with matching Thermos and by some miracle it never broke. I didn't use it much and it may still be in my mom's kitchen cabinet in the back. Mom used a stainless steel Thermos that survived a drop from the roof of her Dodge Dart with a few dents. She taught homebound students out of that car and took her coffee with her. Thermos also made a picnic set with two large Thermos bottles and a container for food sitting in between, in a large zippered case. Thanks for the video!
Hi Jonathan! Alvin and the Chipmunks! Haven't thought of them in a long time!! That was a fun lunchbox to have! Those stainless steel models were pretty sturdy. I might have one of those picnic sets - it had a tan and plaid bag with a zipper and a red plastic box for sandwiches, etc. with two matching plaid thermoses. I'll have to dig it out for a summer picnic!! Thanks so much!
My mom had one of those picnic sets in a green kind of plastic bag with the two Thermoses on the side and a tin box with lid in the center.
I have my Thermos from school, and the one my grandfather carried to work, from the 1960s. I went through I don’t know how many, because the glass lining would break. Glad that phased out!
I think it took them a while to develop a new kind of liner that wasn't glass, but those old liners sure would break easily.
Just yesterday my wife found a picnic thermos set at a habitat for humanity store in Amarillo texas. Twenty bucks all in tact brand new never been used. Too cool!!!
Washing Borge thermos and food tray right now and probably will be using
Hi Wannabe - that's a great find!! Enjoy your vintage thermos set!!
Hi Kev! Always amazed at your great collection!!! My grandma had one of the large plaid jug thermoses you showed and she would pour her sun tea in it and add ice and we would have it on the picnic table when I was a kid. She would add the ice and it would stay cold all afternoon for when we needed a cold drink 😊 What great memories!!
Stay well!!! Hope you guys were all able to get vaccinated!! All the best!!
Jeff xo
Hi Jeff!! Sounds like your grandma knew how to keep her sun tea cold in the summertime! A great memory! Thanks for sharing it! Yes, we are all vaccinated! Thanks!!
I want to go back to those days
These were good times!
Another wonderful episode, I had a Snoopy doghouse lunchbox with a matching thermos.
Hi Andrew! I'll bet you loved taking that Snoopy lunchbox to school! So many great lunch boxes back then and you always felt special when you got a new one! Thanks so much!
Does my heart good to see all those thermos's. I love and collect them. Used to take hot soup to school for lunch in mine and hot tea when it was winter and i had to drive
Thanks for sharing your thermos memory, Kim!
I have a bunch of vintage thermoses. Alladin, thermos, king seely and uno-vac. I have small mouth and wide mouth. I use the wide mouth ones in winter for soup and I use the small mouth ones all year long. I would be lost without my vintage thermoses.
Hi Jason! Sounds like you have a nice collection! Thermoses are great and so handy - seems people don't use them as often as they used to. Thanks!
Just discovered your channel. I collect vintage appliances (coffee percolators, toasters, waffle irons, thermoses, etc.) but nowhere near your level. My memories of thermoses are of the Thermos of coffee my mom would pack (like the first red with black banded Thermos you showed) for our vacations. We would always stop at a rest area and have donuts (which my dad would pick up the night before) and coffee. I remember one trip where when my mom opened the door to get out of the car at the rest area and the Thermos fell out and hit the ground shattering. My dad was not happy. Years later, I carried a Thermos of coffee to work every day. It was already something most people didn't do, so everyone would always kid me. One of my coworkers in an act of horsing around knocked it out of my hands not realizing there was a glass liner inside. It shattered of course. I still haven't let him forget that to this day.
Hi Tom! Glad you found us! Those old glass thermoses worked wonderfully, but sometimes didn't survive a drop! Sounds like you lost a couple of them. Some stores sold replacement glass liners, because it was not unusual for people to break them. Thanks for sharing those memories!
@@cavalcadeoffood my dad did end up buying a new liner to replace the one my mom broke. I'm not sure whatever happened to that old Thermos though.
My Dad had one exclusively for when he went hunting!
Hi Barbara! Thanks for sharing - I'll bet it came in handy for hunting!
This is fantastic. PLEASE tell me you have a lunch box collection too!!!!!
Thanks, Cooking from the Loft! I don't have a lunch box collection - just not enough room LOL! Something always appealed to me about the thermoses. Thanks!
Picked up a couple older Aladdin thermos's today for $1 a piece. Thanks for all the info!
Great deal - enjoy those thermoses!
These are really good videos. I found them after getting my hands on a WestBen hotpot ( orange model ), since then been looking at videos of all their products and found you guys :) sadly not enough videos of all the cool weird odditys I've found from weatbend out there. Maybe a future video idea for you guys ?
Hi Ryan - I don't have a lot of West Bend things but I'll have to look around. Glad you enjoy the videos!!
I had a Flinstones metal lunchbox with a matching thermos. The thermos broke but I still have the lunchbox!
Hi Marilyn! Your Flintstones lunchbox sounds cool - nice that you still have it! I think many of those thermoses didn't survive!
When I started 1st grade in the fall of 1971 I had a Peanuts lunchbox that had the matching thermos. All these years later I have no idea what happened to the lunchbox but I still have the thermos with it's original glass liner intact. I think it was the next year that thermoses in lunchboxes went from having glass liners in metal outer shells to being all plastic inside and out with some kind of foam insulation. They weren't as good at keeping things cold. My milk would be more lukecool than cold by lunchtime. I also have a quart size Aladdin Stanley Steel thermos that I use occasionally still. They still make them only the new ones are from China and are much thinner steel and a lot lighter. Mine is made in USA and built like a tank and weighs about as much.
Hi tallboyyyy! How great that you still have your Peanuts thermos! Usually, it's the thermos that gets broken or lost and the lunchbox remains. Those older Stanley thermoses were made very heavy-duty and the one you have should last forever! Thanks!
ya i got one made by stanley its green 70s 0r 80s and heavy. for your work break Lunch YOU GOT A REALLY COOL collection
Hi Gary! I remember how sturdy and heavy those Stanley thermoses were - they were meant to hold up a long time! Thanks!
Hello...the lid of the wide mouth thermos was the bowl for soup or stew etc. so you didn't need a ( long spoon)...😊💕
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Now, people use the Yeti style insulated tumblers for coffee they bring from home. My husband does that every day. It keeps coffee hot for hours and you don't have to pour it out into a cup each time to drink. You just have to be more careful to keep it upright. We still have his old green Stanley thermos that fits under the handle of the matching insulated lunch box. He hasn't used them in years. We have modern, all plastic versions of those half gallon picnic thermoses. My husband would take one to work in the summer and I took them when I went places with the kids. It saved a lot of money by not buying drinks, as well as kept a lot of plastic bottles and fast food drink cups out of the landfill.
Hi keepsmilin'! Thermoses are really practical, and they do save money and waste. Somehow many people got away from using them for the convenience of not having to wash, etc. It has created a lot of plastic waste, that's for sure. Thanks!
Kevin, I so enjoyed this video and seeing your collection. You are wrong though about the glass liners, the glass liners are doubles walled, formed with a hollow space and a vacuum was applied and then sealed at at the bottom glass tip to slow the transfer of heat either in or out, take out a glass liner and you will see this, very good design. Some vacuum thermoses were made with stainless steel vacuum liners, like Stanley that are very sturdy.
Hi Brett! Thank you so much for the explanation of the vacuum around the glass liners - now this makes sense as to how they work. They are amazingly effective, although a bit fragile. I see the advantage of the stainless steel liner! Thanks again!
@@cavalcadeoffood Hi Kevin, The glass liners are double walled and hollow and this is where the vacuum is created between the glass layers, this is why they are so fragile and easy to break, kind of like a light bulb with the vacuum inside. If you look inside the rubber plug at the base of the replacement liner you have you will see where under vacuum the fragile pinch off point is to seal the vacuum inside.
Kevin you do such a fine job with all your videos and I have so much fun watching them and trying some of your recipes, I realizes I know a few people you were with at the washer/appliance event, it looked like a lot of fun.
@@brettster3331 So glad you enjoy the videos! The vintage washer/appliance group is a good time - wish we got together more often! Thanks again for the info!
Great video! I really enjoyed it.
Hi Lisa! Thanks so much for watching!
Too cool thanks for sharing
You're welcome!
I love what you do. I myself, do it on a smaller scale and I love it also.
Do you have any Lava Lamps and Disco lights, by now they are retro too.
Thanks so much, Ruby! I don't have any lava lamps or disco lights - but I remember them fondly! Pet rocks, too!! Thanks!
Wow ! Right off the bat I knew I had seen him somewhere before and now I know ! Thats Mr. Buxton that told Francis his son that he could have anything he wanted for his birthday . He still looks great wearing an ascot but he really should have his own name on his jumpsuit . Anyway , I'm so glad Pee Wee got his bike back .
LOL - you found me! Pee Wee says hello!
Hey there! Thanks for featuring your collection! I will be purchasing a vintage Thermos similar to the one at 9:33 I think it is a model 2402, Filler 24F, Stopper 722, Cup 84A73.
However, I want to replace the 722 stopper to another which is twist & pour or a press button etc. So that I can pour water into my yerba mate (south american drink) without having to remove the lid entirely.
Would you please give ms any tips on finding a fitting stopper? What are the dimensions? I'm thinking of using Ali express to find an alternative stopper. Thanks again for the time and for your beautiful channel!
Hi Vito - I'm sorry I don't have any tips on using an alternative stopper. That's not something I've ever done.
Late 60s I had a mini lunch box with flower power designs. Some kids kicked it all around the playground and destroyed it. I was and still am devastated. How could my classmates be like that?
They don’t make them like that anymore. I’ve had the dickens of a time finding one that holds the heat/cold for any length. Just purchased another one Saturday at a hunting store near me. Hope this one does it. Thanks for video.
Thanks, Sandra. These do keep the hot things hot for a good long time!
These are fun. Love the Thermoses. There is something about picnic and travel ware. We never went on picnics but these items still bring back hellish car travel memories. I have a Hamilton Scotch - Car Snac with two Sportsman bottles... you have one in green, and it hangs over a car seat. For a dollar, couldn't resist. The Pelican has a great look and I've never seen one.
HI bg147 - these were popular to take on road trips. Funny how we wouldn't think of stopping any buying things to drink - we brought something from home with us. I've seen those that hang over the bench seat in the car - this was before we had 10 cup holders everywhere! Thanks!
Love the ascot cravat! Is it jacquard or damask silk?
Thanks, John! I have a small collection of ascots - this one is jacquard. Thanks!!
Also, there was no microwaves to warm up coffee, etc. back then.
Hi Pj! You're right about that! Microwave ovens changed a lot of things! Thanks!
Did you also collect themed lunch pails with matching thermoses?
Hi DD Waters! No, I don't collect the lunch boxes with thermoses, but I know a lot of people do and I think some of them are quite valuable. I wish I had the ones from my childhood! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood I have two Garfield lunch pails with a thermos included in each. New and never used. Love them.
@@sunshinedays4512 Cool! Great that you have them still brand new!
@@cavalcadeoffood I have an entire Garfield Collection. My favorites are the yellow and the red lunch boxes including the Thermos's. I only display them. 😊
Thanks for sharing. I have on a hunt for these at my local goodwills, but most of the have 3 silver spots under the glass lining, do you happen to know what they are? and i f they affect the thermos function? thank you.
Hi Idalia - not sure what those silver spots could be (might be a result of manufacturing the glass liner), but I would test by using hot water and see if it retains the heat. Thanks!
The older thermoses always have those spots . Part of the manufacturing. It doesn't effect their usefulness.
Baffling how they actually sold replacement glass liners, sad we've actually moved backwards in some cases. I was looking at my stand mixer the other day and how the electric motor brushes can be swapped in a matter of seconds. My mind was blown.
Hi CDNCarGuy - things were designed to be repaired rather than thrown away. It's too bad we got away from that model. Thanks!
A better title would have been "The Vacuum Bottle Collection". Thermos was a major manufacturer, but it's like calling all tissues a Kleenex or carbonated beverages Coke. I know that I'm nit picking... sorry!!! 😁😁😁
I used to have a classic green Stanley vaccum bottle that I used for hot coffee when I went ice fishing.
I don't think I ever owned a Thermos brand vacuum bottle. 😲😳😳
Today, designer vaccum water bottles are all the rage!! Yeti is now the new Thermos so to speak.
Very fascinating! Take care!! Be well!
Hi Greg! Funny you should mention the name "Thermos." In the early 60's there was a lawsuit about Aladdin marketing "thermos bottles" and Thermos sued, but a judge ruled that thermos (lowercase "t") was a generic term and could be used by other makers. I've seen the vacuum water bottles in the stores, so I guess there's nothing new under the sun! LOL! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood Thermos is more recognizable than vacuum bottle anyway, but it's part of our vernacular like Kleenex.
I currently have a Simply Modern (Slm) brand water bottle and it keeps beverages cold up to like 8 hours! I can leave it over night on my night stand and in the morning the ice is still mostly solid!!
They came in a children New Lunchboxes they were small Plaid that you showed.
Hi Ramona! I remember those lunchboxes! Thanks!
i had one in the lunch box
a676man - thanks! Seems like many lunch boxes came with a matching thermos!
I took a Thermos to school every day. I had a plaid metal lunch pail that had metal arms inside to hold the Thermos in place.
The Thermoses back then had a glass core so if you accidentally dropped it on the ground your juice or milk would be full of glass shards. They would never make them like that today. Especially not for kids. 👧🏾👦🏾🧒
I bought an Alladin Thermos at a Vintage store recently and I took it apart to clean it. I can't get the bottom back on. The thread just won't line up. It's frustrating.
Sometimes those older plastic thermos bottoms are tricky to put back on. You might try putting a very thin coat of vaseline on the threads and try to attach it.
On the wide mouth ones with the plastic insert for say soup, how do you pre heat them? Do you take the glass out and heat the glass up? Or just preheat the plastic insert? Or both? Thanks!
Hi Emerson - I found the best way to preheat the plastic ones is to fill with boiling water and put the lid on for about 10-15 minutes. Thanks!
Hot Cocoa for the Santa Parade.
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Not one mention of Stanley thermoses in the whole lot? Wtheck
I don't collect Stanley thermoses because they were usually just a solid color (green) - I like the patterns and colors of other brands. Thanks!
Problem with the old Thermoses the glass would break inside
Hi RugbyFootballer - yes, this seemed to happen a lot. Many hardware stores sold new glass liners for people who needed to replace theirs. Thanks!
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Gosh. I remember when women actually made their men’s lunches for work every day and they carried them in silver lunch pails.
The original water bottle
Hi Meredith Lynn! Yes - you are so right! They were the original water bottle! Thanks!
My daughter takes a thermos of coffee to work. She feels like the coffee at her job is nasty and the coffeemaker is filthy!
Hi Monica - I don't blame her for bringing her own coffee!
I made a mistake and put Coke in my Get Smart lunchbox. Big mistake.
6th! :)
Yay!! Thanks, Going Slightly Mad!!
The plaid goes along with the popular plaid shirts workers would wear. It was original accessorizing and america didn’t even know it. Sneaky women
I never thought of that!