In 1984, Logan High School graduate Ron Kind announced he would not play football during his senior year at Harvard. Quarterback Kind said work and school...
In 1961, the Racquet newspaper at La Crosse State devoted a large article to the popularity of pizza in the U.S. Only about 500 pizza places...
The King of rock and roll, Elvis Presley, was born on January 8th of 1935. Not many people would know about Presley until he started making...
At the end of 1975, the La Crosse Tribune ranked troubles in the La Crosse DA’s office as the top local news story of the year. ...
At the start of 2000, the Catholic diocese of La Crosse announced a school consolidation plan. La Crosse Bishop Raymond Burke said the Coulee Catholic Schools...
In 1942, just a few months after the U.S. entered World War II, the Hollywood Victory Caravan arrived for a brief stop at the north La...
You could have heard the theme from “The Magnificent Seven” in ads for a certain cigarette on New Year’s Day of 1971. But the next day, those regular...
The 2010’s are coming to an end, and quite a few things about the Coulee Region were different at the end of 2009, compared to now. ...
In 2017, La Crosse Central won its first state basketball championship since 1925. The final score of that 2017 was 55-53, against Cedarburg, a very high-scoring...
Just before Christmas of 1973, America’s new ‘energy czar,’ William Simon, asked for drivers to voluntarily limit their gasoline purchases to 10 gallons a week. He...
In December of 1959, Donald Slayton spent the holidays with his family in Monroe County. It was the first Christmas since Deke Slayton was named as...
Just before Christmas of 1984, the city of La Crosse sold the former Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium to Western Wisconsin Tech and its Foundation. The sale...
Men went into orbit around the moon for the very first time on Christmas Eve of 1968. The Apollo 8 spacecraft circled the moon until Christmas...
In late 1990, the La Crosse park department was discussing plans for building a boardwalk in Riverside Park. The department wanted to install 32 boat slips...
In the late 1980’s, Wisconsin was easing its way into legalized gambling, after decades of opposition, even banning nationwide sweepstakes. Bingo became legal in the 70’s,...
Tiny Tim was getting married at Christmas-time, 50 years ago. And by Tiny Tim, we don’t mean the little boy in the Charles Dickens story. ...
Christmas was going to be tough for America in 1963, just after the assassination of President Kennedy. But some iconic holiday songs and entertainment made the...
In October of 1978, a crowd of about 500 gathered at a large vacant lot in downtown La Crosse, for a mass ground-breaking ceremony to start construction...
K-Mart had just opened in La Crosse, a few months before Christmas of 1965. The big box store at Losey Boulevard and State Road had ‘giftarama’ discounts,...
The year 1974 began with Richard Nixon as president, and ended with Gerald Ford in the White House because of Watergate. Many Republicans in Congress lost...