“Concrete streets can ignore Father Time”…a claim made 53 years ago

Fifty-three years ago, the Portland Cement Association of Milwaukee was running newspaper ads in La Crosse touting the long life of a street made of concrete.  The ad said that concrete pavement installed early in the century was designed for light traffic loads, such as horse-drawn buggies and small cars.  But many of those old roads were still in good shape.  The first concrete road in Wisconsin was built in 1908, in Fond du Lac.
 
In the fall of ’64, Americans waited for an official government report on the assassination of their president, almost a year earlier.  TV networks aired live news reports at the hour when the Warren Commission report was released on a Sunday afternoon in September.  The panel headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in the shooting, and that he did not conspire with anyone else.
 
The Packers had that Sunday off.  They were playing a rare Monday night game at Detroit, and won it 14-to-10…but they couldn’t win the division that year.  It was the last time Green Bay failed to win a league championship during Vince Lombardi’s run as head coach.  Fifty-three years ago, 1964, yesterday in La Crosse.