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...
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...