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  Bad news for a Monona Terrace auditorium, two nights of radical theater, and an off-beat mayoral campaign. Just some of what was going on in Madison 50 years ago this week. The third week of January, 1969 Hopes that the city would soon start construction on a 2,300-seat civic auditorium at Monona Terrace start to fade […]
  A firefighter falls, new housing for migrant workers, a new gun registration ordinance, and a twin tragedy in Vietnam. Just some of the events making news this week in Madison in the Sixties. The second week of January January 8, 1966 – Fireman Daniel P. Parkinson Jr., 33, dies of smoke inhalation when a falling […]