In October of 1957, La Crosse State president Rexford Mitchell announced that construction of a new union building would start in the winter or spring. The...
In October of 2000, a special committee in La Crosse held a hearing on the future of the “Big Indian” statue in Riverside Park, nicknamed “Hiawatha.” ...
In October of 1977, Judge James Rice of Monroe County launched a bid for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Rice said the main issue of his campaign...
In the month before the 1960 presidential election, both major candidates campaigned in La Crosse. Vice President Richard Nixon spoke at the Sawyer Auditorium one day...
The La Crosse city council took up a public consumption ordinance in 1975. The ordinance would prohibit drinking on the streets of the city, or the...
In the fall of 1992, the La Crosse County Republican Party had a meeting shortly after the election in which President George Bush had been defeated...
In 1966, a ‘La Crosse Citizens Committee Against Fluoridation’ bought a newspaper ad claiming that a ‘propaganda’ piece in the West Salem newspaper led voters there...
In November of 1981, La Crosse tried an experiment to keep shoppers coming downtown, after the opening of the Valley View Mall. The city council considered...
In 1968, the La Crosse City Council was on its second round of bids for a new building to replace the city hall at 6th and...
In 1973, the organizers of Oktoberfest made a scheduling move to cut down on the public drunkenness and crowds on 3rd Street of previous years. The...
In 1985, Onalaska tennis pro Tom Gullikson won his first singles title in 11 years on the Grand Prix circuit. Gullikson took the championship at the...
Just after the 1963 Oktoberfest, organizers claimed the crowd that attended the 3rd annual festival was the largest ever in La Crosse. Festgoers drank 1000 half-barrels...
In the fall of 1965, Dale Rudy got a building permit to build a second A&W restaurant in La Crosse. The original A&W in town is...
Just before the 1974 election, Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey spoke in the new North Hall of UW-L, now called Wimberly Hall. Democrat Lucey was seeking a...
On Halloween night in 1975, a Friday night, most UW-L students probably wouldn’t be caught dead…or alive…attending a college debate between teams from La Crosse and...
When the Twist became a national dance craze in the early 60’s, the Arthur Murray Dance Studios were ready to teach you. La Crosse had a...
The strip mall at Jackson Plaza had its grand opening on Jackson Street in 1957, anchored by Major Rexall Drug and a Piggly Wiggly store. It...
Fifty years ago, a nearly constant rain fell on the 1967 Oktoberfest Maple Leaf parade…leading to flocks of umbrellas along the route. The parade began at...
In the fall of 1964, the Frankenstein monster became family man Herman Munster…and Count Dracula became “Grandpa.” “The Munsters” hit CBS the same September that ABC...
In the fall of 1971, the state university…soon to be known as UW-La Crosse…made an offer to lease three city parking lots for $800 a year,...