In May of 2013, a couple eyebrows may have been raised when a man from Superior appeared in Judge Dale Pasell’s courtroom, and the judge was...
In 1994, La Crosse’s Oktoberfest chose a button design featuring a wizard and a crystal ball, emphasizing the “magic” of the 34-year-old festival. But one person...
Elvis Presley was just 21 when he played his only concerts in La Crosse, two shows in one night at the old Mary E. Sawyer auditorium on...
Pizza Hut, Pizza Villa, Pizza Ranch, Pizza Doctors. La Crosse has fallen in love—that’s “amore”—with the Italian delicacy of crust and sauce, cheese and toppings. In...
For many La Crosse families in May of 1944, during World War II, the kitchen icebox was still literally an ice-box. Not an electric refrigerator. To...
In May of 1974, more than 1000 young Safety Patrol members from Wisconsin schools went on the patrol’s yearly bus trip to the Nation’s Capital, and Gettysburg. There...
Late in April of 1965, the domed courthouse in downtown La Crosse was demolished, after being used for 61 years. A new jail and courthouse had...
During the race for mayor of La Crosse in 1939, candidate Donald Lyden used the word “amuck” to describe the city’s taxing practices. He was one...
In the summer of 1971, about 500 people attended the ground-breaking for a new Kickapoo River dam project near La Farge. Just one protester spoke out at the...
You might have heard about Elvis Presley performing at the old Sawyer Auditorium in May of 1956, when he was 21. But there are lots of...
By the spring of 1984, the CB radio fad may have been done, but special radios were still popular…especially police scanners, for people to listen to...
In April of 1959, the introduction of America’s first seven astronauts was front-page news around the country, and especially for the La Crosse Tribune, which touted...
In the summer of 1969, it was against the law in La Crosse County to drink anything but milk during June Dairy Month. Okay, we think that was...
The 22nd of April in 1970 was a big day for ecological awareness in the U.S. Walter Cronkite did a special report on CBS that night,...
On April 8th of 1974, viewers around the U.S. watched an early-season baseball game between the L.A. Dodgers and Hank Aaron’s Atlanta Braves. Aaron had tied...
In April of 2001, the national media kept track of severe flooding on the Mississippi. For a couple of days, the focus was on La Crosse,...
Five-day-a-week soap operas were introduced on radio in the 1930’s, and then moved to television. An episode only lasted 15 minutes, until April of 1956. That’s when a pair of...
It’s happened five times in American history…a president has been shot while in office. Abraham Lincoln was the first, in 1865. Then Garfield, and McKinley, and...
One year before the ’72 presidential election, South Dakota Senator George McGovern visited La Crosse during the fall fest. At the time, McGovern was one of...
In early 2006, the city of La Crosse was ordering the demolition of a nearly century-old building next to the new Cameron Avenue bridge. The owners...