In October of 1989, the La Crosse County board was considering the idea of hiring a county executive to manage government business. The concept of an...
One year before the ’72 presidential election, South Dakota Senator George McGovern visited La Crosse during Oktoberfest. At the time, McGovern was one of several Democrats...
The former 1965 courthouse and jail in La Crosse were recently converted to an apartment building called “The Hub on 6th.” That building replaced an old...
In October of 1955, NBC aired a television special called ‘1976, Your World of Tomorrow.’ It was sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, and scheduled in...
It was billed as ‘positively the most sensational event ever held in La Crosse,’ when an airplane came to town in 1911. In October of...
In 1973, the organizers of Oktoberfest made a scheduling move to cut down on the public drunkenness and crowds on 3rd Street of previous years. The...
In October of 1963, the city council turned down a plan to put a south-side fire station at 16th and Farnam, to replace Station 5 on...
In 1976, a student at La Crosse Central was suspended for three days, for the offense of sitting at a lunch table reserved for teachers. The...
Seventeen years ago, in 2002, former Lanesboro police chief John Tuchek was put on trial for setting a building on fire in his town. Tuchek was...
In the early 1800’s, the area that became Wisconsin was briefly divided into two large counties. Brown County covered the east side of the state, and...
“There is a middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.” That was part of one opening for the “Twilight Zone” TV show. ...
Just before the 1966 Oktoberfest in La Crosse, a cartoon in the Tribune asked “How’s this for an image?” The cartoon promoted the six-year-old festival as...
In November of 1981, a year after the opening of Valley View Mall, La Crosse tried an experiment to keep shoppers coming downtown. The city council...
In 1991, for the third spring in a row, La Crosse police had to deal with visitors trying to make trouble downtown during the weekend of...
In 1971, the Quillin family opened an IGA foodliner in the Village Shopping Center. Quillin’s featured several ‘big and beautiful’ specialty departments in that Village location,...
Since the late 1970’s, La Crosse Logan has been the only high school in the city with its own swimming pool. But before that, in 1961,...
In 1982, Valley View Mall began hosting an indoor exercise program called ‘Walk for Life.’ Most of the stores in the mall didn’t open until 10...
In early 1979, La Crosse residents were about to vote on a referendum to prevent the widening of West Avenue for two years. But a citizen group called...
Yesterday 9/16/19 Long before Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, there was opposition to the idea of a government-run public television channel in Wisconsin in 1954, with...
In 1990, five La Crosse bars had to close on June 30th, when their liquor licenses expired at midnight. The bars temporarily kept out of business...