There oughta be a law against drinking on the street, and it happened 42 years ago

The La Crosse city council took up a public consumption ordinance in 1975.  The ordinance would prohibit drinking on the streets of the city, or the sidewalks.  Aldermen admitted the purpose of the ordinance was to control drinking during events like Oktoberfest.  One council member, Dennis Kaufmann, wanted open drinking to be allowed if paper or plastic cups were used.  Tavern owners would have some responsibility, to warn customers that they couldn’t leave a bar with a beer or other drink in hand.  A sign saying so had to be posted at the exit.  Alderman Dick Arneson asked to have those signs posted at every exit of a bar.

On this night in 1975, Simon and Garfunkel re-united five years after their break-up to perform together on “NBC’s Saturday Night”…the show now known as “Saturday Night Live.”  Paul Simon was hosting the second episode of the series, after George Carlin hosted the debut.  The different title was used to avoid confusion with a new ABC prime-time series called “Saturday Night Live,” a Ed Sullivan-type variety show hosted by Howard Cosell.  Other hosts in the first few weeks of NBC’s “SNL” included Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Robert Klein, and the first two-time host, Candice Bergen.  Live from New York 42 years ago, 1975, yesterday in La Crosse.