Rare Video - Chinese New Year in Boston (Year 1999 - 2000) Firecrackers Celebration

Chinese New Year in Boston from the early days. Rare video from my old VHS tape. Lion dance and huge amount of firecrackers which are the classic traditional long ones. Includes awesome video from the late 90's and year 2000 (when we had the year of the dragon). Featuring Gund Kwok Lion Dance Female Troupe, Boston Freemasons, and Wah Lum Kung Fu. Enjoy.
Watch Chinese Firecrackers celebration for Year of the Rat below:
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[@PooMonkeyMan]

My gosh, I wish we had this much firecrackers in DC or in RI for the New Year. That would have been great!

[@BrianAnime]

@shelllew23 Yeah, it's really amazing how this was Boston over 10 years ago, since the last occasion, when we had the year of the dragon.

[@G35pudge]

this is how it still should be

[@chevronso25]

Those lion heads are so old school! i wish Malaysians didn't invented the mickey mouse looking lion heads. we could have those lions here in my country. started 2000 when my athletic association uses the Malaysian lion heads..

[@AlexWooKungFu]

There's clips of Calvin Chin's Martial Arts Academy too

[@jfuya2000]

@ricefarmer88 I heard that they've been discouraged by the local gov't from using firecrackers ever since 9/11 (that may be the reason why we don't see as many as we used to =( )

[@G35pudge]

@jfuya2000 i heard some white lady got hurt and on top of that the boston fire department had contract issues with the mayor or something like that. its a whole lot of shyt