On August 21st of 2017, a total solar eclipse passed over the U.S. for the first time in nearly 40 years. Several states from the west...
You would have heard Aretha Franklin a lot on the radio in 1967. She had five hits in the top 10 that year, including “Natural Woman,”...
A walkout against the Trane Company in 1955 came after a union rejected three company offers. About 1700 Trane employees were off the job. They got...
In the spring of 1942, clocks all over the U.S. were running an hour ahead of Standard Time to save energy during World War II. It...
The width of West Avenue was a hot topic in the fall of 1978. The “Neighborhood Preservation Association” was against making the north-south road 16 feet...
In 1977, five members of the La Crosse school board were fighting for their board seats, in the face of a recall campaign. The board angered...
La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke predicted in 1992 that the north-south corridor idea was “dead” for the decade after Plan 5 was voted down by the...
Fifty years ago, August 8th of 1968, Richard Nixon accepted the Republican presidential nomination, for the second time, when the GOP held its convention in Miami...
For much of 1980, Fort McCoy housed thousands of people who had fled Cuba in a massive boatlift. Some of them had been prisoners released from...
A John Doe investigation of illegal gambling led to a fine for a past president of La Crosse’s First National Bank in 1974. George Milne was...
Today’s college students routinely carry laptop computers and smartphones. But in 1961, high-tech teaching equipment used at La Crosse State included overhead projectors and reel-to-reel tape...
The Rivoli Theater in La Crosse is still in business today, but the Tivoli restaurant off Highway 35 is not. Both were busy places in 1970. ...
In 1982, an executive with La Crosse’s cable TV franchise…then called Group W…was insulted that the city council wanted to review his company’s rates. Terry Myering...
In the summer of 1966, you could take a long weekend vacation to Niagara Falls by train, on the Milwaukee Road. The railroad promoted a four-day...
In 1979, Mayor Patrick Zielke of La Crosse decided to seek a third term. In those days, La Crosse’s mayor only served two-year terms, instead of...
During summer vacation in 1974, vandals tore apart the IMC, the library area, at Spence Elementary in La Crosse. The damage to the 10,000 square...
James “Bo” Gritz was running for president in 1992, and campaigned at the La Crosse Center that June. Gritz was a former Green Beret who had...
“Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed.” People all over the earth heard those words coming from the moon on July 20th, 1969, when two Apollo...
In 2001, viewers of the Montel Williams talk show were introduced to James Schuman of Galesville. Schuman wasn’t a guest, but his estranged wife was…to talk...
In 1964, the city Plan Commission wanted to build a fire station at 5th and Cameron in La Crosse. It was supposed to replace stations on...