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...
In 2002, the rehab center known as “The Coulee Council on Alcohol and Other Chemical Abuse” adopted a shorter name. It would become “The Coulee Council...
In 1989, La Crosse police were very interested in an excavation project near Pickwick, Minnesota, in the White’s Hollow area. Winona County authorities spent five hours...
Astronaut Donald “Deke” Slayton came back home to the Sparta area around Halloween of 1975, to be honored shortly after his only mission in space…the Apollo-Soyuz...
In 1984, the First Bank Place, now US Bank, was about to open at 2nd and Main. It would become the tallest office building in La...
Many U.S. Presidents, or presidents to be, have paid visits to God’s Country in the last 50 to 60 years. Donald Trump has not been to...
On the night before Halloween 80 years ago, in 1938, many Americans heard that spaceships from Mars had landed in New Jersey…but they only heard it,...
Forty five years ago, in the fall of 1973, word got out that NASA was testing women to see if they could withstand the rigors of...
Gov. Warren Knowles was running for a third two-year term in the fall of 1968. Knowles was promoting traffic safety in his campaign, by showing a...
In November of 1989, East Germany surprised the world by announcing that its citizens would be allowed to travel freely anywhere…meaning there was no more need...
Only one major league baseball club from Wisconsin has ever been a World Series champion, and that was the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. They beat the Yankees...
During the 1966 Oktoberfest, go-go nights were set up at the Avalon Ballroom on Copeland, to attract a younger crowd. But on the first of the...
In October of 1955, La Crosse State College was about to get $90,000 worth of state funding, to help acquire the county fairgrounds along Campbell Road...
In the fall of 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made history by signing the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. That gave Germany parts of Czechoslovakia,...
The roof of La Crosse City Hall was crowded one morning in 1992, as spectators watched naturalist Pat Skewes place a box containing four peregrine falcons...