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...
In 1936, La Crosse’s Hollywood Theater at 5th and Jay opened its doors, charging 25 cents for matinees and 35 cents at night. The building had...
In the summer of 1971, La Crosse’s city plan commission gave early approval to $5.1 million in improvement projects. Just one year earlier, La Crosse had...
In 1972, UW-La Crosse was thinking of building a new football stadium on the far south side of town, at the Holy Cross seminary. The Wisconsin...
On the 4th of July in 1970, La Crosse dedicated a 6-floor City Hall, which is still the city’s main office building today. It replaced the...
Some 12 score years ago, our forefathers declared independence on the 4th of July. And many songwriters have included that date in their lyrics. Chicago did...
In 1991, the Wisconsin Assembly was considering a bill to split up hotel room taxes more equally among groups that would benefit from the money. The...
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...