Last weekend the annual Lunar New Year Parade marched through Chinatown in Los Angeles. While the parade was colorful, much else happened off the parade route. (See photos of the 2016 parade here.)
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce put a lot of energy into the event including rock musicians on one stage, Chinese lion dancers and acrobats on another stage and, of course, parked nearby were the food trucks and the other local vendors one finds at almost every public festival in Los Angeles.
Local building owners obviously have been sprucing up their buildings in Chinatown, perhaps under the influence of the enormous apartment complex that is being built right beside the Gold Line Metro Station. You can see it below. Sadly, it is so huge that it obstructs the view of the old, historic buildings in Chinatown.
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