If you are old enough to remember these...........

[Sooner24]

http://theimaginaryworld.com/fizzie09.jpg

you probably shouldn't be hitting on TD2K. :D

[Soonerus]

I remeber fizzies....

[OCUDad]

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9475/niklniphn7.th.jpg (http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=niklniphn7.jpg)

[Tailwind]

Fizzies were soooooo cool back in the day.

[SteelClip49]

I am only 23 and I remember when Gatorade came in glass bottles and the original grape flavor was the best.

BTW, Circle K is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! I hate the new look though.

[AlbqSooner]

Ever just put the Fizzies straight onto your tongue? 50's version of Pop Rocks. Kinda like "Lik M Aid" with an extra.

[reevie]

Oh sweet, now I can hit on TD2K

[TUSooner]

I just shed a tear of nostalgic joy for dear old Fizzies. I thought might be the only person alive who remembered them.
They remind me of playing in the lawn sprinkler on a hot Oklahoma summer Saturday, and coming into the house for baloney sandwiches (white bread, mayonnaise and baloney) lovingly served by dear young saintly Mom (God rest her soul). She'd ask what flavor of Fizzies I wanted; what a pleasant dilemma to decide. <sigh>

[OUDoc]

I just shed a tear of nostalgic joy for dear old Fizzies. I thought might be the only person alive who remembered them.
They remind me of playing in the lawn sprinkler on a hot Oklahoma summer Saturday, and coming into the house for baloney sandwiches (white bread, mayonnaise and baloney) lovingly served by dear young saintly Mom (God rest her soul). She'd ask what flavor of Fizzies I wanted; what a pleasant dilemma to decide. <sigh>
My childhood, minus the fizzies and the mayo. I hate mayo.

[Okla-homey]

Or McDonalds fried pies with the molten lava filling that could give third degree tongue burns.

[IronSooner]

I've never seen those in my life. Does that put me in the runoff?

[rufnek05]

was that like the pre-curser to Tang?

[mxATVracer10]

was that like the pre-curser to Tang?
ummm, I think you are thinking about Poon not fizzies ;)

[sooner_born_1960]

Original gatoraid was not grape.

[yermom]

i think he just meant the original "Grape" as opposed to the "Grape Fierce" or whatever crap they have now, all i remember as a kid were Lemon-Lime and Orange

[Sooner24]

And another toy from my childhood. If you had a water hose it was either hooked up to this.

http://www.digitalflotsam.com/archives/thekiller.jpg


or this.

http://images.farmgoodsforkids.com/full/wo-90072.jpg

[Sooner24]

Fizzies were soooooo cool back in the day.



Thinking back Fizzies tasted kind of like Alka-Seltzer Plus only not as good.

[BajaOklahoma]

Rootbeer fizzies. I never did try them in water.

[yermom]

were they all artificially sweetened?

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

They remind me of .... coming into the house for baloney sandwiches (white bread, mayonnaise and baloney) lovingly served by dear young saintly Mom (God rest her soul). <sigh>I think passed on moms have a tendency to leave those kind of memories.

[Sooner24]

This was also a favorite.

http://www.phys.unt.edu/~klittler/demo_room/mech_demos/WaterRocket.jpg

Waiting for the jokes to start on this one. :D

[yermom]

dude, it's the original ******rocket!

[C&CDean]

The Water Wiggle. The Slip-n-slide. The Water Rocket.

I remember when I broke my brother's tooth with a water wiggle. And who didn't shoot those water rockets at passing cars? And to think today's kids would rather kill/maim/dismember aliens on some ****ed up video game. Sad indeed.

[Sooner24]

were they all artificially sweetened?


It says they are artificially sweetened with Sucaryl and Saccharin. These were probably the secret ingredients that made our generation so smart. :cool:

[BigRedJed]

This was also a favorite.

http://www.phys.unt.edu/~klittler/demo_room/mech_demos/WaterRocket.jpg

Waiting for the jokes to start on this one. :D
DUDE. That is SO SWEET. I LOVED those things.

[yermom]

It says they are artificially sweetened with Sucaryl and Saccharin. These were probably the secret ingredients that made our generation so smart. :cool:

yeah, i was just wondering if all of them were like that

i hate that stuff...

[Sooner24]

We were also smart enough to play with these and not get killed.

http://www.radaronline.com/features/images/2006/12/jarts.jpg

[yermom]

DUDE. That is SO SWEET. I LOVED ******rockets.

this explains a lot

[BigRedJed]

These two kids used to shoot those things off all the time, standing in front of this porch.

http://a150.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00216/94/12/216322149_l.jpg

[SoonerTerry]

i miss these

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/SimTechMan/marathonbar.jpg

[BigRedJed]

By the way, I'm holding a dagger and a pistol in that picture, and he has a little carbine rifle. Those were the days.

[BigRedJed]

And yes, those are Chuck Taylors. Eat it, bitches!

[Sooner24]

This thing got hot enough to keep lava molten but we never got burned using it.

http://csob.berry.edu/faculty/jgrout/exer_prn/vacuform.gif

http://www.markthompson.us/B9/BrainLens/Vac1.jpg

Now they have to put on the coffee cup that the contents is hot because people are so stupid they can't figure it out. :rolleyes:

[Sooner24]

i miss these

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/SimTechMan/marathonbar.jpg


Wasn't he in Brokeback Mountain?

[Sooner24]

If we had a dime instead of a just a nickel we would get the one that had the rubber band and propeller.

http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/485/product_medium/JZAM11.jpg

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

I pulled a loose tooth out eating a Marathon.

It was awesome.

[BigRedJed]

If we had a dime instead of a just a nickel we would get the one that had the rubber band and propeller.

http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/485/product_medium/JZAM11.jpg
Did yours really say Jason Mraz on it? 'Cause that would be creepy.

[BigRedJed]

And I'll say it again: that dude needs to buy a vowel.

[Sooner24]

Another favorite when I was growing up.........


http://www.timewarptoys.com/klackersa.jpg

I’m beginning to realize most of the things I played with as a kid where eventually turned into sex toys. :eek:

[sanantoniosooner]

you didn't start preferring the hairy ones did you?

[Sooner24]

http://serioustoyz.com/OptiArt/auctionart/WINTER'05AUCTIONLARGE/sillyputtyMOCL.jpg

[Vaevictis]

i miss these

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/SimTechMan/marathonbar.jpg

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/curly-wurly.htm

[Sooner24]

http://www.rickgibson.net/intro/viewmaster.jpg

[the_ouskull]

http://www.darcidoll.com/catalogs/colofrcat.jpg

http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20050314/SSpell.jpg

Even as a kid, I hated Texas Instruments. I know what a "Texas Instrument" is... It's a tool. Like Mack.

http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/tomy_verbot.jpg

And, the one toy that no kids seem to play with anymore, which depresses me to no end...

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Imagination-Mountain-with-Rainbow-Print-C10094027.jpeg

the_ouskull

[Sooner24]

My iPod

http://www.robertopiecollection.com/Application/images/Bush-radio/first-transistor-radio.jpg

[swardboy]

I just shed a tear of nostalgic joy for dear old Fizzies. I thought might be the only person alive who remembered them.
They remind me of playing in the lawn sprinkler on a hot Oklahoma summer Saturday, and coming into the house for baloney sandwiches (white bread, mayonnaise and baloney) lovingly served by dear young saintly Mom (God rest her soul). She'd ask what flavor of Fizzies I wanted; what a pleasant dilemma to decide. <sigh>

Change "Oklahoma" to "Missouri" and we're soul bruthas!

[Sooner24]

http://www.seefred.com/sitepics/products/pudding/mytfine.jpg

Dessert of choice.

[Sooner24]

My first hero (other then my dad).

http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tk40(wky2).jpg

[Sooner24]

First roller coaster ride. The Tornado at Wedgewood amusment park.

http://www.picturemeonline.com/wedgewood/midway/portraits/06.jpg

[Sooner24]

I'm so old I remember when OKC had three amusment parks. Wedgewood, Springlake and Frontier City. The funny thing is I always thought Frontier City was the weakest of the three, when I was a kid, and it is the only one still around.

[OUDoc]

First roller coaster ride. The Tornado at Wedgewood amusment park.

http://www.picturemeonline.com/wedgewood/midway/portraits/06.jpg
When I was in Jr High, my mom worked at Wedgewood (now an apartment complex with the amusement park's olympic-size swimming pool and a "moat" that may have once been a ride). I used to find golf balls from Wedgewood's driving range in that water. Apparently, TGI Friday's and the animal hospital sit where the park's parking lot once was. The bridge connecting the two is still there.

[OCUDad]

I miss the old days when real doctors were too busy healing the sick to hang around on internet message boards.

...oh, wait...

[OUDoc]

I miss the old days when real doctors were too busy healing the sick to hang around on internet message boards.

...oh, wait...
Real GOOD doctors already healed everyone and went home.
Only the crappy ones (and residents, sorry guys :)) have to stay late, like on TV. ;)


And that moat was a ride. This structure is still there as well.

http://www.picturemeonline.com/wedgewood/images/safari.jpg

[Okla-homey]

This guy (the world's greatest pawpaw) gave me a B-B gun when I was six. Note: I never shot my eye out. That's baby Homey BTW. I was a big Johnny Cash fan when I was 5, as seen here.

http://aycu23.webshots.com/image/15662/2005909723248244580_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005909723248244580)

[Tailwind]

http://www.robotnut.com/windup/wspark1.jpg

[rufnek05]

i was more about lego's. i had several large rubbermade tubs full of those things. they were awesome. i could build for hours and hours. never used directions, just made things from the old noggin
http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/03/building-blocks/legos.jpg

[Blue]

This thread smells like old people...

http://www.benettontalk.com/grandpa_pear.JPG

[Tailwind]

Hey!:mad:

[Blue]

Hey!:mad:

Not you. ;)

[Tailwind]

:D

[Tailwind]

Where's my freakin Geritol?!!?

[birddog]

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7521/kifmtoysallarcoelectronot3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[SOONER44EVER]

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/SkittlePoolBox.jpg
http://www.toizrit.com/sizzler.jpg
http://www.toystimeforgot.com/auction/john1.jpg
http://mas.scripps.com/FINE/2003/07/03/FLBAM-102-STINGRAY-06_e.jpg Coolest bike EVAR!! Only the rich kids had them though. :(

[OCUDad]

Two words... Flavor. Straws.

[sanantoniosooner]

Two words... Flavor. Straws.
actually pixy sticks sounds more your speed.

[TUSooner]

The Water Wiggle. The Slip-n-slide. The Water Rocket....

I got a 2nd degree sunburn playing on a slip & slide one day. It's helped put my dermatologist's kids through college. :rolleyes:

[CUinNC]

Anyone remember these...guess I was lucky & had them all...we did some weird shat with those things...but we never got burnt, or set anything on fire except the creatures we made:D

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/vm_box2.JPG

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/vm_insid.JPG

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/gopsiz.JPG

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/crg1.JPG

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/GCCcom.JPG

And Yeah - those fighting Men!

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/fmbox.jpg

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/Fighting1.JPG

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/fm-instr.gif

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/fmmold.jpg

[Viking Kitten]

http://www.dollreference.com/images/7259growup.jpg

Any of you girls remember Growing Up Skipper? You twisted her arm and she grew boobs. My older brother sometimes asked to borrow her.

[BlondeSoonerGirl]

Yep. I remember her.

I had this slut:
http://www.helluvafind.com/~priceguides-and-more/0875885861.jpg

My brother bent her knees backwards until her rubbery, plastic cartiladge was popping out. Evil little bastard.

[C&CDean]

My brother bent her knees backwards until her rubbery, plastic cartiladge was popping out. Evil little bastard.

Go on...

[Viking Kitten]

Did he ever make her do it with GI Joe?

[Viking Kitten]

http://www.timewarptoys.com/lemon.jpg

Ooh... I used to skip all over the neighborhood with this thing.

[slickdawg]

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7521/kifmtoysallarcoelectronot3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


I had one of these and cherished it.


MY Uncle was visiting us, and he was taking a bath, and dropped the thing in the tub. :mad:

never worked again.

[CORNholio]

http://www.kshs.org/cool3/graphics/ftballgameclose.jpg

never learned the rules for this one just turned it on and "let 'er rip":les:

[85Sooner]

And another toy from my childhood. If you had a water hose it was either hooked up to this.

http://www.digitalflotsam.com/archives/thekiller.jpg


or this.

http://images.farmgoodsforkids.com/full/wo-90072.jpg


Ahhhhhhh memories of the water wiggle

[sanantoniosooner]

http://www.paxacidus.com/images/pai/1/soda-pop_1745_11038175.gif

[Oldnslo]

slip-n-slide. no way to use it without getting hurt.

good times.

[Viking Kitten]

And remember how the ***damn Barbie shoes never fit on the ***damn Barbie feet? That used to **** me off so bad. You'd have this great ****ing outfit, but Barbie's feet would be bare because the geniuses at Mattel couldn't figure out how to make a ****ing plastic mold for a shoe that was the same size as the doll they'd been making for 40 ****ing years.

[OCUDad]

actually pixy sticks sounds more your speed.**** off, young dip****

[Sooner24]

What kid didn't think Santa was real after waking up to find one of thses babies under the tree.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rghayes/georgeconneally.jpg

[yermom]

dude, he brought you babies?

at least that one looks old enough to sleep through the night

[Sooner24]

http://flyingcolorscomics.com/blog/uploaded_images/mailedD1-724327.jpg

.............who disguised as Clark Kent, mild manner reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way.

[Sooner24]

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/AppleValley_CA_50s_SkyKing.jpg

[Sooner24]

http://www.ait.net/technos/images/54keeshan.gif

[Sooner24]

What 16 year old kid didn't have this hanging on his wall? :D


http://girlstalkinsmack.com/cutenews/data/upimages/arkiv_farrah-poster.jpg

[Sooner24]

Oh Magoo, you've done it again.

http://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/anim/mrmagoo.jpg

[Sooner24]

http://members.chello.nl/~l.de.bondt/GreenHornet2.jpg

[BajaOklahoma]

http://www.ait.net/technos/images/54keeshan.gif

We had that show on every morning before school, until it was cancelled. :(

I'm old enough to remember everything you all have mentioned. :O
How about:
Miss Fran from Storyland
Ding Dong School

[Ruuuuuufus]

ball in a cup!

http://www.easypics.us/pics/ballinacup.JPG

[CUinNC]

What kid didn't think Santa was real after waking up to find one of thses babies under the tree.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rghayes/georgeconneally.jpg

I still have mine that Dad & I used to have a permanent run table set-up. We had everything, tunnels, towns, 3 controllers, smoke, all of it..

My Sons want the set as soon as the first one has a kid...I set it up once & now they are laying dibs to get it..

Good Times Yep....:)

[Okla-homey]

You know how I know you're old? If your parents referred to Brazil nuts as the toes of a person of a certain ethnicicity.

[OUDoc]

The Water Wiggle. The Slip-n-slide. The Water Rocket.

Was this while you were serving time?

[OCUDad]

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3184/45rpmtz3.jpg

[TUSooner]

First roller coaster ride. The Tornado at Wedgewood amusment park.

http://www.picturemeonline.com/wedgewood/midway/portraits/06.jpg
Ooooh Oooooh WEDGWOOD RULED !!!

SpringLake - not so much

[TUSooner]

Did he ever make her do it with GI Joe?

I caught GI Joe in the act of ravishing Barbie. So I built a little gallows and hanged him.

Rather Addams-familyish, I'm afraid. :eek:

[Sooner24]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/photo/2005-07/18733386.jpg

[Sooner24]

Reading about the first moon landing it said there is not one clear picture of Armstrong on the moon. He took most of the pictures and the ones he is in are in the shadows or out of focus. One of the best shots of him is in the reflection in Buzz Aldrins helmet visor.

[Soonerus]

One small step for dole, I giant step for SF...

[Sooner24]

http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/Lone%20Ranger%20larger.jpg

Looks like a couple of the Village People. :eek:

[Sooner24]

My all-time favorite western as a kid.

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/rifleman-bw.jpg

Lucas McCain could shot the balls off of a mosquito at two hundred yards.

Only :dean: could come close to duplicating this feat.

[Sooner24]

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/avengers2.jpg


Boy I had it bad for Emma Peel.

[Sooner24]

http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/12/12958.jpg


"They're Grrreat!"

[Sooner24]

http://educ.queensu.ca/~science/main/concept/gen/g09/S.%20O'Donnell/Page3Files/Super_Ball.jpg


I swear this thing would go 100 feet in the air.

[Sooner24]

http://www.hasbro.com/common/images/products/04657_imageMain400.JPG

[Mongo]

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o259/hobbs70/bigwheel.jpg

[Sooner24]

The first non G rated type movie I ever saw.

http://www.lukegilman.com/blog/wp-images/barbarella-poster.jpg


Stinkin commie!

[Sooner24]

Last one.

http://www.grrl.com/cootie2.jpg

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/Cootie.jpg

[Sooner24]

What kid born in the 50's didn't have this in thier car?

http://www.sbw.org/sbw/home.nsf/index/vw/$file/sapphire8.jpg


AM radio with 8 track tape player.


Looks like they were listening to KOMA. :D