Jan. 26, 1928: Chinese New Year on Apablasa Street in L.A.'s Chinatown. Photo published in the Jan. 27, 1928, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
Link
Feb. 2, 1930: The Chinese Lion goes about collecting gifts hung over doors during New Year's celebrations in L.A.'s Chinatown. This photo was published in the Feb. 3, 1930, Los Angeles Times.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Los Angeles Times
Link
Feb. 14, 1942: The black dragon, right, loses a fight with Gum Lung, the golden dragon, during the New Year's celebration in L.A.'s China City. The black dragon of evil represented the dying year and, according to the Times' 1942 caption, the military party of Japan.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ray Graham / Los Angeles Times
Link
Feb. 7, 1942: The caption in the next morning's L.A. Times read, "Priests yesterday before the altar at China City as they read the ancient ceremony in which an effigy of the Kitchen God was burned that its spirit might ascend to report on Los Angeles Chinese families."
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ray Graham / Los Angeles Times
Link
Jan. 21, 1955: The Chung Wah Chinese School Drum and Bugle Corps performs in the Chinese New Year parade in L.A.'s Chinatown.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times
Link
Feb. 1, 1963: A dragon, manipulated by 40 men, takes part in the Chinese New Year parade for the Year of the Rabbit in L.A.'s New Chinatown.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Al Monteverde / Los Angeles Times
Link
Jan. 21, 1966: A dragon parades on North Broadway, celebrating 4,664th Chinese New Year to greet the "Year of the Horse."
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bill Murphy / Los Angeles Times
Link
Feb. 10, 1967: An estimated 30,000 attend the "Year of the Ram" Chinese New Year celebration in L.A.'s Chinatown.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jack Gaunt / Los Angeles Times
LinkMore galleries on Framework
return to gallery
Pictures in the News | April 30, 2013
Tuesday's Pictures in the News begins in Kentucky, where a horse makes its way to the track for a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville. The 139th Kentucky Derby will... View Post»
Natalie Cole isn’t a victim of the struggling economy. She was poor before and is poor now. Hers is a story of entrenched poverty — a whirl of choices, challenges and chaos... View Post»
Protesters clash with LAPD officers in Westlake
Protesters clashed again with LAPD officers Wednesday night over the police killing of Manuel Jamines in the Westlake district on Sunday. Twenty-two people were arrested... View Post»
Haiti: Living in Limbo - Days of remembrance
On Jan. 12, Marise George arrived by bus in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hours later, she lay buried under rubble from the devastating earthquake. Times photographer Carolyn Cole, who... View Post»
