In December of 1980, Gateway Foods brought Frank Abagnale to La Crosse for a seminar on how to watch for bad checks and other scams. Abagnale...
In 2016, a north La Crosse restaurant suddenly announced it was closing its doors for good. On November 15th, the owners of the Maid-Rite on Caledonia...
On the day before Thanksgiving in 1985, a ribbon cutting was planned at the intersection of Highways 16 and 157 at Valley View Mall. Major highway...
Thomas Jefferson was getting the boot from the U.S. Treasury in 1966, deciding to retire the $2 bill, but not the nickel. The Treasury said there...
According to a 1974 newspaper report, an unemployed math consultant from Vermont wanted a federal judge to invalidate President Richard Nixon’s second election in 1972, the one...
The Friday before Thanksgiving in 1963. November the 22nd. La Crosse would set a new record high for the date, 59 degrees. Central would host Richland...
In 1984, automobile man John DeLorean went on trial for trafficking cocaine. DeLorean claimed police entrapment, and he was acquitted. A newspaper cartoon that November showed...
In late October of 1976, Senator Bob Dole paid a campaign visit to La Crosse and West Salem. Dole was President Gerald Ford’s running mate on...
In the fall of 1973, America’s bicentennial was less than three years away, and La Crosse was forming a committee to plan the local celebration. Richard...
During this week in 1863, President Lincoln gave his most famous speech, at the dedication of a cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The November 19th ceremony came...
In late 1990, Rockland was lobbying for an I-90 interchange that would help development of the town. Construction was scheduled for 1995, but the project never...
In November of 1979, about 75 people took part in a march on the UW-L campus, protesting against the hostage crisis in Iran. The demonstration was...
Just before Thanksgiving of 1977, Mayor Pat Zielke was celebrating the passage of a nearly $10 million referendum to let the city of La Crosse build...
Fifty-seven years ago, La Crosse police compared accident figures from 1961 to the previous year. There were about four crashes a day in La Crosse, for...
In 1976, Father James Groppi of Milwaukee spoke on the La Crosse campus, and was back in the headlines. Groppi had become famous for civil rights...
A La Crosse newspaper headline said “Attempt on life of Fuehrer fails.” And there was only one Fuehrer around, Adolf Hitler. In November of ’39, Hitler...
In the summer of 1999, government protester Kurt Machholz climbed to the top of the Cass Street bridge in La Crosse, halting afternoon traffic as he...
In November of 1963, Republicans were making plans for a comeback in 1964, hoping to limit Democrat John Kennedy to just one term. But Democrats scored...
“This…is London” was a familiar opening to Edward R. Murrow’s radio reports from England during 1942. Murrow and other CBS reporters, including Charles Collingwood and Eric...
A humorous song about “poisoning pigeons in the park” was talked about in real life in La Crosse, in 1976. The idea of poisoning pigeons...