The U.S. Post Office introduced ZIP codes on July 1st of 1963, as a new way to move the mail along more quickly. The five-digit codes...
The state of Wisconsin was declaring war against pot in 1938. Attorney General Orland Loomis warned that the ‘marijuana evil’ was not yet a major problem...
On June 27th of 2009, a 300-pound black bear made its way into the city of La Crosse. It wound up in a tree in Myrick...
In the fall of 2001, the president of the National Indoor Football League met with possible investors who could support an arena football team at the...
A citizens’ committee against fluoridation was formed in 1966 in La Crosse, to fend off a trend of adding fluoride to public water supplies. The group...
In June of 1969, Crawford County marked its sesqui-centennial…150 years since it had been founded. In 1819, Crawford took up about one-third of the Wisconsin territory....
In 1966, the center span of the new I-90 bridge at Dresbach was installed. Planners expected the bridge to carry traffic by the fall of ’67....
In June of 1953, La Crosse hosted the yearly Alice in Dairyland festival, which was started in the 1940’s to help promote the state’s dairy industry....
In May of 1959, the city of La Crosse was getting ready to complete the Lang Drive extension across the marsh, connecting George Street to West...
In June of 1970, Congress passed what would eventually become the 26th Amendment, lowering the national voting age to 18. The age change was included as...
Cartwright Center at La Crosse State was expanding its basement bowling lanes in ’63…also adding pinsetting machines which included what was called ‘the Sparemaker.’ After a...
In May of 1973, Crawford County Sheriff Ray Childs called for an end to the ‘Ye Olde Fyre Engine Muster’ held in Prairie du Chien. The...
In the summer of 1980, Fort McCoy had accepted many of the refugees from Cuba who had arrived in the U.S. in a massive boatlift. That...
In June of 1994, O.J. Simpson was arrested for a double murder after the infamous “white Bronco” chase in California. The Simpson case broke the same...
In 1972, the 4th of July fell on a Tuesday, and the La Crosse Tribune suggested that Independence Day become a Monday holiday, for the sake...
Shortly before the 1968 presidential election, an editorial in the La Crosse State College ‘Racquet’ called candidates Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace ‘little more...
In 1975, La Crosse voters elected a new mayor, Pat Zielke, and some new city council members. Helen Kelly became the second woman on the council,...
The Allied invasion of France on the 6th of June, 1944, was a major turning point in the war, but back home, workers were still needed...
Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire was retiring in 1988, and candidates in both parties were hoping to get his job. The state Democratic party held its annual...
In August of 1966, gunman Charles Whitman climbed to the top of a tower at the University of Texas, and fired dozens of shots at the...