May 2021 - Retro Reminiscing Video and Pictures

YouRememberThat.com Is Now The RetroSite.com !!

Some of you may be wondering how you got re-directed to here from YouRememberThat.com. The site was launched back in 2007 when there were no internet video standards. MP4’s were rare which is now the standard for mobile devices. We had over 30,000 videos that would need to be converted and reposted. The task was tremendous. The software that ran the site was ancient and needed to an upgrade that would require a lot of work.

YouRememberthat.com was not my first choice of names for the website but everyone was internet name harvesting, that is buying up all sorts of names in hopes that someone would pay big bucks for it. Then, I discovered that TheRetroSite.com was available and I purchased it. It was actually easier to start up a new site with new software and mp4 videos.

So welcome to the new site and I hope you enjoy it!!

Crazy Foam

Who remembers Crazy Foam from their childhood? It did make bath time more fun! They were mostly popular during the 60’s. A couple of sources say it was popular through the 80’s but by then I didn’t need any bath aids!

Crazy Foam was just recently purchased and reintroduced with Justice League and Looney Toons. We really didn’t need them to be licensed to like them!

Dixie Riddle Cups

Question: If an athlete gets athletes foot, what do astronauts get?

Answer: Missile Toe!

This was one of the many jokes feature on the Dixie Riddle Cups introduced in 1970. From a family of seven there wasn’t a lot of extra money for “luxuries” like disposable cups but it was one our family enjoyed. Growing up in the 70’s a come back line if you told a joke like this was “What? Did you read that on a Dixie Riddle Cup?

The Riddle Cups became popular, the cups were brightly colored and had a series of jokes that sadly repeated in the box of cups, usually containing one hundred cups. Dixie then introduced a full line of Riddle Plates and Riddle Bowls. Paper dishes were too much of a luxury for our family so I don’t recall these nor the Knock Knock Riddle Cups. By 1978 the novelty wore off and Dixie discontinued printing them.

In 1997 Dixie revitalized the cups with a contest for kids to submit their own jokes. If selected they would be printed on the cups with the child’s name, hometown and they would win a $1,000 savings bond. Dixie capitalized on this even more by having America’s favorite “Riddler,” actor Frank Gorshin who played the Riddler in the 1960’s TV show Batman.