In the middle of October that year, Nikita Khrushchev lost his job as first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party…less than a year after the assassination...
A couple hundred students at UW-La Crosse staged a protest on a Saturday afternoon in late 1986 in the Murphy Library. They wouldn’t leave at closing...
In 1982, the Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium had gone mostly unused for two years, after the opening of the La Crosse Center. Mayor Pat Zielke had...
In 1975, new mayor Pat Zielke said La Crosse would have to consider annexing parts of neighboring towns to stay above the 50,000 population mark, needed...
In the fall of 1968, La Crosse was getting ready for a referendum to place fluoride in the city tap water. Opponents of the plan bought...
“How’s it goin’, La Crosse?” That’s how presidential candidate Barack Obama greeted an outdoor audience between the Holiday Inn and the La Crosse Center on October...
In 1980, the Wisconsin Transportation Commission granted the wishes of La Crosse city leaders by approving two bridges over the railroad tracks near the Amtrak depot. ...
Former Congressman Robert Taft Junior of Ohio told a GOP dinner in La Crosse in October of 1965 that more Republicans needed to be elected the...
The Maple Leaf Parade of 1988 in La Crosse fell just a month before a presidential election, and it drew a frequent presidential contender. Republican Sen....
In late 1967, La Crosse State College bowler Jack Connaughton went to Paris for the International Masters Bowling Championship. Connaughton defeated a Japanese bowler, 195 to...
The #1 song on the week before Halloween of 1962 was “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. In 1991, Pickett performed the song at an outdoor...
In 1951, La Crosse city leaders were discussing an improvement plan with a total cost over $10 million. A new high school to replace Central on...
In the fall of ’79, Michael’s Cerise on Ward Avenue was advertising that customers could “learn how to disco in 3 lessons.” The lessons in the...
The Brett Kavanaugh controversy of 2018 has been compared to the charges made against Clarence Thomas, when he was being considered for the Supreme Court in...
Gardner Withrow of La Crosse was a former railroad man when he first went to Congress in 1931. Withrow served four terms in the House as...
In early 1966, author John Howard Griffin spoke in La Crosse about his experiences posing as a black man in the South, as described in his...
Former university president Rexford Mitchell died on the 4th of July in 1973. He was 77. Mitchell holds the longevity record among the people who have...
In 2013, the La Crosse park department was debating whether to keep the name Hood Park on public property along 5th Avenue South. There was a...
During summer vacation in 1974, vandals tore apart the IMC, the library area, at Spence Elementary in La Crosse. The damage to the 10-thousand square foot...
What was making the news on 8-8-68? Take a trip to yesterday in La Crosse. On August 8th of 1968, Richard Nixon accepted the Republican presidential...