In the summer of 1983, Assemblyman John Medinger introduced a bill to require anyone between the ages of 18 and 21 in Wisconsin to get a...
In August of 1992, Governor Bill Clinton launched his fall campaign for president after the Democratic convention by taking a bus tour through the Midwest with...
Nine years ago, in the fall of 2008, a new traffic signal was installed at the intersection of West Avenue and Pine Street. The signal had...
In July of 1968, the La Crosse County Board chose to postpone the planned retirement of blacksmith Hjalmer Overson for a year. Overson was about to...
In July of 1963, Mayor Milo Knutson vetoed an addition for Logan Junior High School, which would have included an indoor-outdoor swimming pool. It was the...
At Riverfest is 2006, the Freight House was selling prime rib sandwiches. Drugan’s Castle Mound had hamburgers and ‘chatwiches.’ Ciatti’s offered chicken cappellini and a chicken...
In early 1969, the La Crosse Tribune told readers that proper lighting could ‘spice up the bath,’ and add ‘decorating flair’ to a bathroom. Lighting options...
In July of 1967, leaders of La Crosse’s Oktoberfest carried on the tradition of representing the city at the Minneapolis Aquatennial. The local group would board...
In the summer of 1988, Australian Alan Bond had owned La Crosse’s Heileman Brewery for just about a year…completing a hostile takeover the previous fall. Bond...
In the summer of 1985, Madison’s Freedom from Religion Foundation launched its first effort to have a 10 Commandments marker removed from La Crosse’s Cameron Park. ...
In 1964, plans to build a K-Mart at Losey Boulevard and State Road were shut down by the La Crosse city council. They halted the project...
In 1990, a special ceremony took place in Vernon County, at which the state of Wisconsin formally apologized to native American tribes for the Bad Axe...
Forty years ago, in 1977, you could shop for groceries at the Food City Warehouse on George Street, Rich’s Fairway Market on South Avenue, and the...
Fifty years ago, in 1967, the president of La Crosse State, Sam Gates, announced plans for punishing students who demonstrated, or protested speakers on campus. Gates...
For the third year of La Crosse’s Oktoberfest in 1963, bandleader Guy Lombardo brought his Royal Canadians to the Sawyer Auditorium where 7000 people listened to...
In 1956, the state of Wisconsin would ask voters whether sheriffs out to serve more than two consecutive terms, of two years each. The idea was...
In June of 1990, the TV show ‘WWF Superstars of Wrestling’ featured bouts from the La Crosse Center three weeks in a row. On one episode,...
In 1972, the 4th of July fell on a Tuesday, and the La Crosse Tribune suggested that Independence Day become a Monday holiday, for the sake...
The CB radio fad may have been done by 1984, but special radios were still popular…especially police scanners, for people to listen to squad-car radios. Wettstein’s...
In July of 1964, Bangor attorney John Bosshard was driving his family to San Francisco, where he was going to serve as a delegate to the...