A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

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This story (or one very similar) has been posted before, perhaps from a different website.

I also remember it but couldn't find the original discussion Wikipedia has some other links in the references

Discussion also links to several previous/related items https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160456

Great story.

Also:

Is this real?

Yes, though it's probably dramatized somewhat in the article. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombin... for a description of the incident.

KCRA News also has archival video of the explosion is at: https://youtu.be/73S2qDzJr6g?t=71