These businesses popular in 1977 aren’t in La Crosse any more

Forty years ago, in 1977, you could shop for groceries at the Food City Warehouse on George Street, Rich’s Fairway Market on South Avenue, and the A & P at West Avenue and Jackson.  The A & P site is now the home of a Walgreen’s.  The north La Crosse Walgreen’s stands where the Embers restaurant was in business in ’77.  And the Walgreen’s on Mormon Coulee Road used to be a Sirloin Stockade in the 70’s.  That restaurant later became a laundromat before Walgreen’s was built there.

Plans were being made in 1977 for a new Clinton Street bridge to French Island.  The old bridge was small and rickety.  A new concrete span would cost about $1.5 million.

Among new laws being considered at La Crosse City Hall…one council committee wanted to limit the number of cats in town to just two per house.  That didn’t pass.  Another idea that failed would have limited households to just one rummage sale per year, and only one sign on your property could advertise the sale.  Laws that didn’t happen in 1977, 40 years ago, yesterday in La Crosse.