An unidentified couple attend the Lotus festival in Echo Park. He wears a striped shirt, tie and backward baseball cap; she wears a shirt with native pattern, brown pants, and what appears to be a lotus flower barrette on her hair. Each year, Echo Park hosts the Lotus Festival, a pan-Asian celebration, which showcases a different Asian ethnicity (such as Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Bangladeshi, etc.); it has been held since the late 1970's. Given the large amount of lotus leaves in the Echo Park Lake, it is said to contain the largest planting of lotuses outside Asia. The giant pink flowers that emerge each summer from the Lotus bed have dazzled park goers for more than 70 years. Who planted the lotus on the northwest corner of the lake remains a mystery. Photograph dated July 4, 1996.
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Lotus Festival (Echo Park, Los Angeles, Calif.) Ethnic festivals--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Festivals--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Couples--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs Group portraits
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