Five-day-a-week soap operas were introduced on radio in the 1930’s, and then moved to television. An episode only lasted 15 minutes, until April of 1956. That’s when a pair of...
In April of 1971, La Crosse’s Starlite Drive-In near Highway 33 opened for the season. The Starlite had a triple-feature of horror movies on the bill,...
A citizens’ committee against fluoridation was formed in 1966 in La Crosse, to fend off a trend of adding fluoride to public water supplies. The group...
Gov. Warren Knowles was running for a third two-year term in the fall of 1968. Knowles was promoting traffic safety in his campaign, by showing a...
