Jan. 26, 1928: Chinese New Year on Apablasa Street in L.A.'s Chinatown. Photo published in the Jan. 27, 1928, Los Angeles Times.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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