There was a bomb explosion in the Dale Theater as well as in the Loew’s Paradise on the Grand Concourse [188th St]. The bombs went off within minutes of one another at about 9:30 PM. The Dale was showing Cactus Flower – the Loew’s showed the Liberation of L. B. Jones. 10 people were injured at the Dale – where the more serious of the explosions occurred – one at the Loew’s. There was an article in the NY Times on 3 May 1970 entitled: Bronx Bombing Scored by Mayor. The NY Daily News had a picture of a local Catholic grammar school teacher being carried out by two firemen. He taught at St. John’s on Godwin Terrace.
I’ve been out of the area since 1991 – I am surprise to here from the above account that the place was bombed again in the 1990s.
I was eleven at the time and back then there were rumors of it being a targeted attack. I’ve done some digging lately out of curiosity and had been unaware of the second bomb at the Loew’s Paradise. Was that the theater right on the Concourse with the grat clock and steam driven figures [St George and the dragon] and the great ceiling similiar to Grand Central Station?
There was a bomb explosion in the Dale Theater as well as in the Loew’s Paradise on the Grand Concourse [188th St]. The bombs went off within minutes of one another at about 9:30 PM. The Dale was showing Cactus Flower – the Loew’s showed the Liberation of L. B. Jones. 10 people were injured at the Dale – where the more serious of the explosions occurred – one at the Loew’s. There was an article in the NY Times on 3 May 1970 entitled: Bronx Bombing Scored by Mayor. The NY Daily News had a picture of a local Catholic grammar school teacher being carried out by two firemen. He taught at St. John’s on Godwin Terrace.
I’ve been out of the area since 1991 – I am surprise to here from the above account that the place was bombed again in the 1990s.
I was eleven at the time and back then there were rumors of it being a targeted attack. I’ve done some digging lately out of curiosity and had been unaware of the second bomb at the Loew’s Paradise. Was that the theater right on the Concourse with the grat clock and steam driven figures [St George and the dragon] and the great ceiling similiar to Grand Central Station?