What drops on New Year’s Eve? Not just Times Square ball
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The GazetteDecember 30, 2016 | updated 10 years ago
FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, file photo, children gather around a large Peep after it was dropped during a New Year's Eve celebration, at the Levitt Pavillion on the Steelstacks Campus in Bethlehem, Pa. Itâs one of a number of ceremonies in which various objects are dropped around the country to welcome in the new year. (Matt Smith/The Express-Times via AP, File) (The Associated Press)
by The Associated PressNEW YORK ÔÇö That glittering ball in Times Square may be the best-known object dropping on New Year’s Eve, but it’s by no means the weirdest.There’s stiff competition in that category: Everything from a fish to a shoe to a giant candy Peep will descend on Saturday to welcome in 2017.For more Gazette lists, check out our lists page.
FILE – In this Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, file photo, children gather around a large Peep after it was dropped during a New Year’s Eve celebration, at the Levitt Pavillion on the Steelstacks Campus in Bethlehem, Pa. Itâs one of a number of ceremonies in which various objects are dropped around the country to welcome in the new year. (Matt Smith/The Express-Times via AP, File) (The Associated Press)This undated photo provided by Lake Erie Shores & Islands shows the tiny lakeside town of Port Clinton, Ohio, celebrating its annual walleye fish drop at midnight on New Yearâs Eve. Itâs one of a number of objects dropped around the country to welcome in the new year, from a giant shoe in Key West, Fla., to the famous ball in Times Square. (Lake Erie Shores & Islands via AP) (The Associated Press)The annual Idaho potato drop in Boise will feature a massive lit-up “glowtato” to celebrate one of the state’s most famous products. (Glowtato.com)In Key West, Florida, several things are lowered to welcome the new year. A giant conch shell is dropped at Sloppy Joe’s Bar. (SloppyJoes.com)A costumed “pirate wench” is lowered outside the Schooner Wharf Bar. (https://www.facebook.com/Schooner-Wharf-Bar-425886700310/)In what is probably Key West’s most famous New Year’s Eve tradition, a large red high-heeled shoe carrying female impersonator Gary “Sushi” Marion is lowered outside the Bourbon Street Pub complex on Duval Street. (The Associated Press)This undated photo provided by Vail Resorts shows a brightly lit gondola dropping at Heavenly Mountain Resort in South Lake Tahoe, Nev. Itâs one of a number of ceremonies in which various objects are dropped around the country to welcome in the new year. (Vail Resorts via AP) (The Associated Press)In Memphis, Tennessee, a lit-up guitar is dropped at the Hard Rock Cafe on Beale Street. (Trip Advisor)Raleigh, North Carolina, which calls itself the city of oaks, drops a giant acorn to welcome the new year. (John Verdejo/LocalWiki.org)Atlanta hosts a peach drop. (PeachDrop.com)The New Year’s Eve ball rests at the top of a building overlooking Times Square, in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. The dropping of the ball has been a tradition in Times Square since 1907. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (The Associated Press)William Milbrand, mayor of Shamokin, Pa., left, and James Yurick, mayor from 1997 to 2005, meet Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, at the city’s warehouse to admire a replica piece of coal that will lower from the flagpole New Year’s Eve. The first “Coal Drop” was in 1988. (The News-Item via The Associated Press)
