When Donald Trump speaks at the La Crosse Center on Thursday, his visit will continue a local tradition of past and current presidents coming to the...
You might have heard about Elvis Presley performing at the old Sawyer Auditorium in May of 1956, when he was 21. But there are lots of...
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...
You don’t necessarily see many candidates riding in the back of a open car any more, but Richard Nixon did that in La Crosse, in the fall of...
In 1984, automobile man John DeLorean went on trial for trafficking cocaine. DeLorean claimed police entrapment, and he was acquitted. A newspaper cartoon that November showed...
Just before Thanksgiving of 1977, Mayor Pat Zielke was celebrating the passage of a nearly $10 million referendum to let the city of La Crosse build...
In March of 1977, the La Crosse School Board accepted the resignation of superintendent Eugene Balts, who was leaving after six years to accept the same...
Never mind the annual “Elvis Explosion” of tribute artists every year in La Crosse. The real Elvis Presley only appeared once in the city, May 14th,...
In 1982, the Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium had gone mostly unused for two years, after the opening of the La Crosse Center. Mayor Pat Zielke had...
