In late 1990, the La Crosse park department was discussing plans for building a boardwalk in Riverside Park. The department wanted to install 32 boat slips...
During December of 1963, Americans were still adjusting to the November assassination of President John-F Kennedy, and to the new president, Lyndon Johnson. Don Medinger of...
In December of 1967, the Marching Chiefs band from La Crosse State was getting ready for nationwide exposure. According to a story in the campus newspaper,...
A storm in February of 1922 brought up to four inches of ice to central Wisconsin, and 2 inches to La Crosse over a 3-day period....
Around Christmastime of 1984, La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke launched another re-election campaign. Zielke was finishing up 10 years in the 6th floor office at City...
It was on December 8th in 1980 when John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York apartment building by an obsessed fan who had...
In the summer of 1975, hang gliding was becoming a fad in the Midwest, with the bluffs along the Mississippi used as jumping-off spots. A group...
The biggest court case of 2012 in La Crosse County was the double murder trial of Eric Koula. That June, a jury found Koula guilty of...
In the fall of 1969, the Marching Chiefs band from La Crosse State was making travel plans to play in the Rose Parade at Pasadena on...
In late 1976, the city council voted to end a development contract with Harborview Plaza Associates, complaining that the company had been given several years to...
Stroh was suing in 1985 to stop Heileman’s planned merger with Pabst of Milwaukee, and Pabst wanted the Supreme Court to settle the dispute. Stroh and...
In 1956, Northern Engraving president Charles Gelatt was appointed to a new nine-year term on the UW Board of Regents. Gelatt was just 38, and he...
In the fall of 1967, a city council committee voted to remove orange-colored parking meters from some downtown street corners in La Crosse, because the smallest...
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...
In 1977, a taxpayers committee in La Crosse County was looking into the idea of a county executive, which didn’t go over too well with county...
On New Year’s Eve of 1966, Bing Crosby hosted the “Hollywood Palace” variety show on ABC. On that night’s show, Bing became the first person to...
In late 1973, Mayor W. Peter Gilbertson said he was thinking of entering the governor’s race the following year. Gilbertson had just won his second term...
Just before Thanksgiving of 1977, a referendum for a new convention center in La Crosse passed by a 2-to-1 margin…with about 6700 people voting “yes.” The...
The city of La Crosse may be named after the game of lacrosse, but it seems bowling was played here before lacrosse was. The La Crosse...
Thanksgiving of 1963 came six days after the assassination of President John Kennedy. The U.S. TV networks aired only news programming for four days after the...