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...
Seventy-three million viewers tuned in to “The Ed Sullivan Show” on February 9th in 1964, to see a new British band…the Beatles, making their American television debut. ...
In 1975, La Crosse area residents raised several hundred dollars to help people in Corn Island, our sister city in Nicaragua. A group of visitors from...
In 19995, a plan by the Lac du Flambeau tribe to turn the Holiday Inn on the pike into a $50 million casino was shot down...
In 1969, La Crosse State College hired John Alexander from the University of Missouri to succeed Ralph Wahl as director of the Marching Chiefs band. Alexander,...
The court system in La Crosse County had grown enough by 1985 to require a fourth circuit. Five candidates were running that winter for the chance...
In 1972, some football fans in La Crosse were trying to raise $30,000 to bring a semi-professional team to town. The Central States Football League was...
In May of 2012, the La Crosse park board was told by tree specialists that about five thousand ash trees might have to be removed from city...
This is expected to be the coldest week in the Coulee Region since late January and early February in 1996. After two big snowstorms a week apart, a...