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...
Two clues were all that a brother and sister needed to find the Oktoberfest medallion in 1968…yesterday in La Crosse. Medallion hunters in 1968 were told...
In 1974, La Crosse County clerk Russ Fiedler reported that he had earned more than 53-hundred dollars in the previous year in fees from licenses...
In October of 2008, Arizona Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy landed at the La Crosse airport, for a campaign rally roughly a month before...
In 1977, the town of Medary tried to incorporate…partly to take advantage of development that was expected to follow the opening of a new shopping mall...
The downpour of August 18th and 19th, 2007 in the La Crosse area was the biggest local weather story of that year, according to the National...
The Swinger was a new Polaroid camera, not a girl…but in 1966, “The Polaroid Girl” was on hand at K-Mart in La Crosse to demonstrate the...