The two U.S. presidents named Bush both came to La Crosse while they were in the White House. The older Bush, number 41, spent Halloween night...
An audience of 1700 people gathered at Mitchell Hall on the La Crosse State campus in 1970 to hear a famous speaker named Spock…and we’re not...
Around Christmas of 1962, the La Crosse Tribune reported “Santicipation” among local children who were lined up to see Santa Claus inside his trailer parked downtown. ...
Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, a former candidate for vice president, got plenty of support in 1996, as he campaigned for the Republican nomination against President...
Christmas of 1965 marked the first holiday season that K-Mart was open in La Crosse, at Losey Boulevard and State Road. The big box store had...
In 1956, a parking ramp, or a deck, was unheard of in La Crosse. But a Citizens’ Committee for a Greater La Crosse was asking for...
In the fall of 1978, La Crosse’s airport was considered for a route by one of the country’s larger airlines, TWA. But airport manager Curtis Tripp...
In May of 1968, the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse named Monsignor John Paul its temporary administrator, while Bishop Frederick Freking was recovering from an illness....
On April 8th and 9th of 1973, La Crosse saw one of its biggest snowstorms on record to that time. The 16-inch total easily beat the...
In November of 1955, Joe Givens resigned as the boss of La Crosse’s Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium, claiming that he could not perform his duties as...
In 2005, a La Crosse area man was asking the Wisconsin DNR for permission to shoot stray cats, if they could be defined as an “unprotected...
The La Crosse area is seeing record low unemployment right now…but a newspaper story in November of ’74 called the jobless rate in La Crosse County...
The assassination of President John Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963 was the headline story on the final edition of the La Crosse Tribune that Friday. The...
In November of 1968, Gein was convicted of murdering a central Wisconsin woman 11 years earlier…and then, the judge found him innocent by reason of insanity...
In the fall of 1962, the La Crosse State College dedicated White Hall, just north of the Memorial Stadium parking lot. The new men’s dorm was...
In the fall of 1989, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson announced he would decide by year’s end whether to run for a second term. Thompson was 47,...
One hundred years ago, November of 1918, the armistice ending what would be the first World War took effect. Three months before the armistice, Sgt. Roy...
In the fall of 1977, Valley View Mall hadn’t been built yet, so Friday night was still a big time for shopping downtown at Sears, Penney’s,...
In the fall of 1938, La Crosse’s vocational and adult school, now known as Western Tech, was about to build an addition on 6th Street, to...
“This time, vote like your whole world depended on it.” That was a slogan from Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign, just before the 1968 election. A newspaper...