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,...
In September of 1959, state GOP chairman Claude Jasper spoke to about 200 La Crosse County workers, and declared that the Wisconsin Democratic Party no longer...
In 1938, the attorney general of Wisconsin warned that the “marijuana evil” was not yet a major problem in the state. But A.G. Orland Loomis wanted...
Several popular songs call attention to the 9th month of the year. “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire is one of the more recent, coming out...
The 1973 Oktoberfest medallion hunt ended abruptly when George Mekvold found the prize in the water at a fountain outside the south entrance to La Crosse...
Drive-through banking was a big deal…50 years ago, Yesterday in La Crosse. In September of 1967, an ad in the Tribune asked “What serves you with real...
During the Wisconsin State Fair of 1966, a plaque was unveiled to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s 1859 address to the Wisconsin Agricultural Society. That was a year...
In 1984, La Crosse joined the growing Crime-Stoppers program, known for running commercials about unsolved crimes and offering rewards for tips from citizens. The local Chamber...
La Crosse’s city charter was signed in 1856, but La Crosse was considered a settlement as early as 1842. That means a centennial for the city...
By the fall of 1972, La Crosse had torn down more than 60 buildings near the riverfront to make way for an urban renewal project called...