The U.S. Supreme Court stepped in to settle a dispute over political districts in Wisconsin in June of 1962. The La Crosse Tribune ran an editorial...
In 1972, singer Pete Seeger performed at UW-L, and also spoke with people on campus about his concerns for society. Seeger said the U.S. was in...
In March of 1987, Madison’s Freedom from Religion Foundation took the city of La Crosse to federal court, to have a 10 Commandments marker removed from...
All the major players in the 1976 presidential race who were still in the running for the Wisconsin primary got to the La Crosse area in...
In March of 1929, Uncle Sam was threatening to take away La Crosse’s airmail service, if something wasn’t done about the airport. Northwest Airways had the...
Never mind the annual “Elvis Explosion” of tribute artists every year in La Crosse. The real Elvis Presley only appeared once in the city, May 14th,...
This may not be a leap year, but the #1 songs on certain leap days have stayed popular over the decades. On February 29th, 1940, ”In...
On one day in February of 1959, La Crosse got 8 inches of snow. A front-page photo in the Tribune showed a car buried in snow,...
In early 1961, the city of La Crosse was getting ready to build a nearly 400 car ramp at Market Square. A New York company was...
In February of 1984, Trane merged with the American Standard Company. Trane chairman William Roth said that the air conditioner maker, founded in La Crosse in...
The Academy Award ceremony broadcast in April of 1969 did not have an official host. Traditional host Bob Hope didn’t do the show that year. Instead,...
In February of 1964, the La Crosse city council and the school board were discussing future plans for a third public high school, besides Central and...
Only 14 states had presidential primaries in 1968. New Hampshire was first as usual, in March, favoring President Lyndon Johnson and former Vice President Richard Nixon. ...
A 1969 story in the Tribune was about the St. Paul Winter Carnival that year. Two hundred persons from La Crosse took a train to the...
The Packers may have been the reigning Super Bowl champs in the summer of 1997, but there was excitement in La Crosse about the New Orleans...
Throughout the year in 1965, local stores placed ads in the La Crosse State campus newspaper, selling diamond rings and other types of rings…apparently, in case...
In 2001, it was a space oddity…the La Crosse Center had space for a professional basketball team, but no team. Early that year, the La Crosse...
The La Crosse Tribune headline of February 3rd, 1959 said “3 Top Rock ‘N’ Roll Singers Killed in Iowa Plane Crash.” Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper,...
In 1962, the Tribune ran a photo of a sad young tennis player, named Tim Gullikson. Tim had just lost the finals of the La Crosse...
In early 1982, La Crosse city leaders agreed to try buying the west side of the 100 block of North 3rd Street. That’s where First Bank...