Wisconsin Hometown Stories: La Crosse
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2025
- La Crosse was able to develop into one of Wisconsin’s largest cities because of a favorable conjunction of geographical facts. First is the breadth of fairly level ground between the river channel and the bluffs. It is wider here than in most places on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi and, although divided by the La Crosse River and extensive wetlands, the prairie had room for a city to grow.
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Chapters
1:48 Intro
13:04 Steam
21:56 Medicine Men
32:06 Reinvention
42:43 College Town
I've lived here for over 35 years and this video taught me so much. Thanks for the video
love la crosse. used to get blackout drunk there so much. still do every once in a while
My beautiful La Crosse. No matter where I go, there's no other place like it.
I live in minneapolis suburb, i love visiting la crosse. Its chill and clean and bars everywhere and tge river with the islands are cool
I was also born and raised there. That city taught me a lot about life.
Much good memories, grew up there, worked for 9 years at Northern Engraving, way too many memories to list!
Good ole Northern Inslaving😂😂. Grew up in trempealeau, Lacrosse is where i got my PhD in alcoholism 😂😂 1:54
We have had gram and gramps live there in a old school house on top of the big hill what beautiful city im 67 and remember that scenery even fishing awesome 👍 content thanks 👍
Great history of a great town
I love watching these learning about are state I’m from Milwaukee
Out with the old.. so sad no mention of the historical & memorable Mary E Sawyer Auditorium/ concert hall… bummer …
but life goes on & my brother & I saw RUSH in 1981 at the new concert hall.. Rush certainly didn’t disappoint.
We also skipped school to hear Teddy Kennedy speak at the new venue one afternoon.. The place was packed & you could have heard a pin drop. Regardless of political preference, he WAS an amazing speaker & had such a charisma. It was history & soon to become the end of an era… If you had the privilege to see one or more of the original Kennedy family speak, you’d be in awe. I was.
I went there to see Jim Reeves and Charlie Pride, also built and sold saw horses at the buidarama trade show, when I was a student at Western Technical in 1976.I missed Rush because I thought that he'd be back but that never happened, big mistake on my part.
Born and raised here. It is all so true.
I lived here all my life and I'm proud to be from La Crosse. But I also think we need another boom to bring newer and high tech jobs here to help us grow for the future
went to rick fest here a few years ago. i think we need to bring that back
Trempealeau was actually the main port on the Mississippi until around 1880 or so when a massive fire destroyed the business district of Trempealeau. Thats when the action shifted to Lacrosse. A lot of history in this area.
The fire and I believe it was easier for the railroads to come into lacrosse.
Ps that was in the early 1982 83 we had a blast walking around seeing the wild turkeys and other animals the town
Cool video
I worked with Erik and was employed there for 20 years!
Great video. That new post office building though. It’s really too bad that this country couldn’t retain its architectural history. So much artistic beauty gone.
Gunderson knew how to deal appendicitis & could do appendectomies. He also knew how deadly an entropic pregnancy could be for women ! This was way back in the early part of the 20th century… It’s hard to understand how people and politicians of TODAY, seem to refuse to acknowledge that entropic pregnancies can STILL be deadly to women.
Here’s to Doctor Gunderson. I lived in La Crosse in the early 1980’s. What a beautiful city and the views off Granddads Bluff was extraordinary- and I’ll bet it STILL IS!!!
Ectopic
Sneekers n shades. Forever
Well done, does anybody know when Oldstyle Light first came out? Is it still made/? How about Special Export Light?
I think they make brew city beer now? Been a while…lived all over that town
The names old style and special export are still being made. However they cheapened the recipe to the point you wouldn't recognize it😢. About 1992, when that Australian bought G Heilamans brewery 😢
@@Marktheshark-e7f through the 90’s they still made both of them, bartended there through then…they had a couple different brews since
@@urbugnmetoday3183 well they used the names old style and special export. But after 1992 it didn't have the quality. it's what happens when MBAs run a company.
All of this history and literally nothing about the greatest thing to ever come out of La crosse
*KWIK TRIP*
Actually i was thinking beer🙂. Old Style and Special Export 😊.
KNOWN FOR BEING THE LOS ANGLES OF THE UPPER MIDWEST
80% of badge cam videos on RUclips originate from this meth infested town
Very informative.