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...
In 1959, Assemblyman Hugh Harper of Grant County proposed dropping the state voting age to 18, arguing that by the time high school graduates get to...
One year before the 1972 presidential election, South Dakota Senator George McGovern visited La Crosse during Oktoberfest. At the time, McGovern was one of several Democrats...
Sixteen years ago, the La Crosse Public Library decided to continue its “Read One Book” program. The project urged city residents to all read the same...
In 1968, the city council was on its second round of bids for a new building to replace the existing La Crosse City Hall at 6th...
Decades ago, presidential candidates dropped in a lot on local TV stations before primaries. On the night before the Wisconsin primary of 1972, Minnesota’s Eugene McCarthy...
In 1969, UNICEF encouraged American colleges to raise money to help the starving children of Biafra, which had seceded from Nigeria two years earlier. The La...
In July of 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at a lavish wedding seen on TV around the world. That same day, the Hotel Stoddard...
In March of 1991, the La Crosse County courthouse and jail were getting crowded. The building had been open only 26 years. It replaced a 60-year-old...
In December of 1967, members of the La Crosse State College band, the Marching Chiefs, were getting ready for nationwide exposure. The campus newspaper, the Racquet,...