In 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon was coming to La Crosse for a rally on the day after one of his televised debates with Sen. John...
Judge Robert Gollmar, who sent Ed Gein to a mental hospital for grisly murders he committed in central Wisconsin, wrote a book about Gein in 1982....
In 1980, the city of La Crosse was cracking down on nude dancing at nightclubs. Two years earlier, city voters has passed an anti-pornography ordinance. City...
UW-La Crosse just recently announced it would stop using coal as a source of heat in 2020. But there was a rally in 2009 which called...
On August 8th, 1974, President Richard Nixon spoke on TV, announcing he would resign, following the passage of articles of impeachment by a House committee. Vice...
In the summer of 1990, the La Crosse Tribune printed four letters to the editor on a single day which all sharply criticized an area man...
In the summer of 1985, the Freedom From Religion Foundation of Madison threatened to take the city of La Crosse to court if it did not...
In the summer of 1985, the latest parking dilemma for downtown La Crosse was whether 2 hour free parking was too long. The city already had...
In 2003, the Mathy Construction Company wanted to build an asphalt factory on industrial land in Brice Prairie, and plenty of people living near the site...
In the summer of 1972, Sen. Nelson of Wisconsin was approached by Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern to be his running mate. Nelson said no, but...
George McGovern was the Democratic nominee to face Richard Nixon in the 1972 election…but four years earlier, in 1968, McGovern was a little-known Senator from South...
Three legislative seats representing La Crosse County changed hands in 2011. At the start of the year, the 32nd District Senate seat was held by Republican...
In July of 1964, La Crosse’s Sawyer Auditorium was about to bring in a touring production of “The Music Man,” and demand for seats was so...
During the summer of 1969, it was announced that the Grandview hospital on Main Street in La Crosse would merge with the Skemp Clinic, and the...
In July of 1983, La Crosse was expecting its warmest weather in three years. The temperature had not reached 100 degrees in La Crosse since the...
In July of 1969, the ‘Eagle’ moon lander of Apollo 11 became the first manned spacecraft to arrive on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong and Buzz...
In 1974, voters in La Crosse overwhelmingly wanted to keep Washburn School open. Nearly 12,000 voted in favor of saving Washburn, compared to 3000 against it....
In 1967, K-Mart in La Crosse was selling beef, with the help of some cheesecake. A group of young ladies called the ‘Miss U-S Choice Girls’...
If you’ve wondered why most U.S. dimes or quarters have a red stripe on the rim, that goes back to a decision made by Congress in...
In July of 1981, the State Bank of La Crosse announced that the former Hotel Stoddard might be demolished if a new use could not be...