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.

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.

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. 👍🏼👍🏼

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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 👏

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

Thanks for sharing your collection! It brings back memories of my dad taking a thermos to work!

New Episode Yay!!!!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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

When I was a kid we had Thermos with a stainless steel liner. Impossible to break!

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!!!

I want to go back to those days

Another wonderful episode, I had a Snoopy doghouse lunchbox with a matching thermos.

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

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.

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!

Thank you for showing your collection! I just started collecting recently!

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

My Dad had one exclusively for when he went hunting!

I had a Flinstones metal lunchbox with a matching thermos. The thermos broke but I still have the lunchbox!

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!

Great video! I really enjoyed it.

Too cool thanks for sharing

Picked up a couple older Aladdin thermos's today for $1 a piece. Thanks for all the info!

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

Hello...the lid of the wide mouth thermos was the bowl for soup or stew etc. so you didn't need a ( long spoon)...😊💕 ...new subscriber.

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.

This is fantastic. PLEASE tell me you have a lunch box collection too!!!!!

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 .

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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. 👧🏾👦🏾🧒

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!

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.

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!

Love the ascot cravat! Is it jacquard or damask silk?

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.

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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.

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.

They came in a children New Lunchboxes they were small Plaid that you showed.

Also, there was no microwaves to warm up coffee, etc. back then.

Hot Cocoa for the Santa Parade.

i had one in the lunch box

Did you also collect themed lunch pails with matching thermoses?

Done

Not one mention of Stanley thermoses in the whole lot? Wtheck

Problem with the old Thermoses the glass would break inside

6th! :)

The original water bottle

Gosh. I remember when women actually made their men’s lunches for work every day and they carried them in silver lunch pails.

I made a mistake and put Coke in my Get Smart lunchbox. Big mistake.

My daughter takes a thermos of coffee to work. She feels like the coffee at her job is nasty and the coffeemaker is filthy!

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