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...
The Apollo program to send astronauts to the moon endured a deadly setback in January of 1967, when the crew of Apollo 1 died in a...
In early 1986, Burger King was running an ad campaign, asking customers to watch for a fellow named ‘Herb’ at their restaurants. According to the commercials,...
In 1970, Congress was talking about ways to preserve the popular Delta Queen paddlewheeler, which made regular trips on the Upper Mississippi. The boat was nearly...
In 1962, there was no such holiday as “President’s Day” in the U.S. Officially, that February holiday still is called “Washington’s Birthday,” but before 1971, the...
In January of 1998, the Holiday Inn Express was under construction at the corner of 2nd and Pearl, across the street from the La Crosse Center....
On April 4th of 1968, Martin Luther King Junior was shot and killed while standing on a balcony at a motel in Memphis. The 39-year-old civil...
Snowzeit, the German term for “snow time,” was chosen as the theme for the Winter Carnival at La Crosse State College in ’62. They had chairmen...
In the summer of 2008, some La Crosse area residents announced plans to take World War II veterans on a quick one-day round trip to Washington....
In 1967, folks in La Crosse were marking 125 years since Nathan Myrick’s decision to build a house here. A newspaper article reported that Myrick became...
At the start of 1964, the Army Recruiting station in La Crosse reported that 176 persons had enlisted at the office during the previous year. According to a...
In January of 1967, a $1 million grant was approved for Viterbo’s Fine Arts Center. The state higher educational aids commission said “yes” to the money. ...
People in Boston still talk about January 15th of 1919, when a 50-foot-high storage tank filled with molasses erupted, sending two million gallons of the gooey...