List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve

An object dropped or raised on New Year's Eve refers to the ball which reaches the bottom or top of a lighted tower at midnight. The arrival of the ball launches a display of fireworks. The special effect of the ball drop is designed like the time balls used in the 19th century.

The most famous "drop" is the Times Square Ball, broadcast nationwide live from Times Square in Manhattan, New York City on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve and on New Year's Eve with Carson Daly. Other major cities have their own versions based on the original. Although some of the objects may seem peculiar, practically all relate to some aspect of local history, geography, or culture. Some of the objects advertise a corporation sponsoring the event.

Ball drop events are otherwise similar to other New Year's Eve celebrations, such as America's Party in Las Vegas, United States and Sydney New Year's Eve in Sydney, Australia, often involving large crowds, live music, and fireworks displays. Ball drops are by far the most common in, but not exclusive to, the United States.

List of drops or raises by time zone and state

Note that several states are divided into multiple time zones.

UTC-3

• Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - A ball drop. Over two million people turn up along four km of sand and the fireworks last for almost thirty minutes.

Atlantic Time Zone

• Passamaquoddy Bay - A red maple leaf, dropped in Eastport, Maine (which is actually in the Eastern Time Zone, one hour behind, though the leaf is dropped at midnight Atlantic Time) in honor of Eastport's friends on the Canadian side of the border. It is the first of two drops in Eastport.

USA Eastern Time Zone

Florida

Note: The Florida Panhandle is in the Central Time Zone.

• Brooksville, Florida - A 200-pound tangerine dropped 40 feet during the countdown to midnight. Discontinued in 2009. The tangerine dropped was an emblem of the citrus industry that once thrived in Brooksville.
• Key West, Florida - A large ruby slipper, with drag queen Gary "Sushi" Marion inside. Sloppy Joe's Bar is the site of the official Key West Conch Drop, where a 6' Queen Conch Shell drops 20' to the top of the bar to usher in the New Year.
• Miami, Florida - "The Big Orange" Drop. (Florida is the orange state) The 35-foot orange rises 400 feet until it reaches the top of the Hotel Intercontinental Miami and is dropped from the top.
• Orlando, Florida - The Annual Church Street Entertainment New Year’s Eve Street Party includes "a huge video wall, confetti cannons, fireworks, and the tradition of the Orange Drop high above Church Street".

Georgia

• Atlanta, Georgia - The Capital city of the peach state has a Peach Drop, broadcast world-wide live from Underground, an event similar to the Times Square Ball Drop. It takes 58 seconds for the peach to descend the 138 foot tower of lights to its resting place. Michael Jackson's brother Tito and mother Katherine issued the official countdown during this year's 22nd Annual Peach Drop New Year's Celebration. The annual Peach Bowl and Parade are sponsored by Chick-fil-A.
• Cornelia, Georgia - A "Little Red Apple" Drop and Dance in honor of the region's apple growers. "Big Red Apple" located at the train depot is not dropped.
• Duluth, Georgia - A disco ball called the Soaring Spirit Ball is raised.
• Gainesville, Georgia - "Chuck the Chicken" Drop (started 2009). Proceeds benefit the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia.
• Macon, Georgia - The Cherry Blossom Capital of the World welcomes springtime with the International Cherry Blossom Festival and in wintertime rings in the new year with the Cherry Blossom Ball Drop, launched in 2009. The ball, made of metal blossoms with pink lights, is six feet in diameter and descends from a 30 foot tower counting down to midnight.
• Tallapoosa, Georgia - An opossum, on odd years. "It kind of started out as a joke", said organizer Kate Gardner. "But now it's grown to one of the biggest events we have".
• Winder, Georgia - A Jug Drop at the Barrow County Museum. The Barrow County Historical Society serves Nodoroc Mud (hot cocoa) and Wog Nog (special apple cider), the event is free and family-oriented.

Indiana

• Kokomo, Indiana - An aluminum 70-Pound Ball with 34,000 lights is dropped during The Kokomo Downtown Association New Year’s Eve Celebration.
• Vincennes, Indiana (near Terre Haute) - A raise and a drop. The giant 18-foot, 500-pound steel-and-foam Watermelon Ball is raised from the ground 100 feet in the air during the 60 second countdown at midnight, and then the replica releases 11 real watermelons locally grown.

Maine

• Bangor, Maine - A beach ball covered in Christmas lights is thrown off the top of a local restaurant beginning in 2005.
• Eastport, Maine - A Sardine, a nod to the area’s historic past in the herring fishing and canning industry of an earlier era. The second of two object drops in Eastport (see also "Atlantic Time Zone" above). Both objects were created by sculptor Bill Schaefer, of East Machias.

Maryland

• Baltimore, Maryland - A disco ball.[1]
• Easton, Maryland - A red crab.[2]
• Havre de Grace, Maryland - An 8 foot long 5 foot high wood-and-plastic foam lit duck.[3][4][5] The first Duck Drop on December 31, 1999 to ring in the new millennium began a tradition which has continued each year since.[6]
• Ocean City, Maryland - An illuminated beach ball.[7]
• Princess Anne, Maryland - A stuffed muskrat in a top hat and bow tie named Marshall P. Muskrat. [8]

Michigan

• Grand Rapids, Michigan - WZZM Ball Drop, Rosa Parks Circle. The steel ball is six feet in diameter, built by GLC Metal Fabricators Inc in Ludington with help from Harsco, covered in LED lights done by Tye's Signs in Scottville. A crane raises the ball 160 feet into the air before lowering it slowly into its position for the countdown.
• Kalamazoo, Michigan - A recyclable ball, added in 2009.[9]
• Ludington, Michigan - A 6’ 5” diameter ball lit up with thousands of lights lowered on a countdown to Midnight.[10][11]
• Royal Oak, Michigan - A midnight ball drop.[12][13][14]
• Traverse City, Michigan - A midnight cherry drop.[15]

New Jersey

Nicole Polizzi dropped in Seaside Heights in 2011.

• Point Pleasant, New Jersey - "The Millennium Mossbunker," a mossbunker fish.[16] (only for 2000)
• Seaside Heights, New Jersey - Nicole Polizzi (a.k.a. "Snooki" from the TV series Jersey Shore) in a ball (2011). Originally planned for Times Square alongside the more famous ball drop, the event was relocated after New York City officials kicked MTV, the organizers of the "Snooki Drop," out of Times Square.

New York

The Times Square Ball.

New York holds many elaborate droppings, particularly the ball drop at Times Square. The state falls in second place for the most items dropped on New Year's Eve.

• Buffalo, New York - A lighted ball and, at one time, a Ford Edge automobile [17]. The Buffalo Ball Drop (formerly the 97 Rock Ball Drop), as it is officially named, is advertised to be the third-largest in the country, with 40,000 in attendance during a typical year.[18] It was nearly canceled in 2010 (due mainly to the effects of the late 2000s recession) before a last-minute sponsorship drive brought in the necessary funds to carry out the festivities.
• Cheektowaga, New York - A ball, dropped during the daytime of New Year's Eve.
• Hamburg, New York - A ball.
• New York City (Times Square) - 11,875 pounds (5,386 kg) Waterford Crystal ball. The most famous of all ball drops, the Times Square Ball has previously taken the form of a metal ball and, during the 1980s, an illuminated apple. There was a new LED-lit ball, instead of a halogen lamp-lit ball beginning with the countdowns into 2008. In 2009 the ball becomes a permanent fixture year round atop One Times Square.^{[citation needed]}
• New York City (rotating locations, Greenwood Heights for 2011) - A giant lighted ukulele, dropped by "Sonic Uke" (a local ukulele playing duo) each year in a different location since 2004-05.
• Niagara Falls, New York - A 10' Gibson Guitar is dropped from a specially designed 120 foot scaffolding at the stroke of midnight at the Hard Rock Cafe. It draws an anticipated crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 fans.
• North Tonawanda, New York - A ball, as part of New Year's on the Canal.
• Syracuse, New York - An orange ball.
• White Plains, New York - A ball drops from a crane on the corner of Main St and Renaissance Square in downtown. The urban festival attracts 25,000 residents of Westchester County, New York.

North Carolina

Raleigh drops its symbol, an acorn.

Mt. Olive Pickle Drop

• Black Creek, North Carolina - A large red heart represents "A Small Town with a Big Heart".[19]
• Brasstown, North Carolina - The Possum Drop. A plexiglas pyramid containing a living opossum is lowered from the roof of Clay Logan's convenience store. The possum is turned loose at the end of the celebration.[20][21]
• Eastover, North Carolina - A three-foot tall, thirty-pound wooden flea.
• Charlotte, North Carolina - A lighted crown is (raised) 25 feet in the air at the stroke of midnight.[22] Charlotte Center City Partners produces the festivities.[23]
• Mount Olive, North Carolina - The New Year's Eve Pickle is lowered down the Mt. Olive Pickle Company flagpole at 7 p.m. EST, midnight Greenwich Mean Time.[24][25][26]
• Raleigh, North Carolina - A 900-pound copper and steel acorn, designed by sculptor David Benson to celebrate the city's 1992 Bicentennial and Raleigh’s nickname: “The City of Oaks”, is lowered via a crane.
  • In years when the Carolina Hurricanes play at home on New Year's Eve, the RBC Center holds its own New Year's Eve "puck drop" inside the arena for fans that attend the game.

Ohio

• Elmore, Ohio - A sausage.[27]
• Marion, Ohio - A ball of popcorn.
• Port Clinton, Ohio - A walleye fish, named "Captain Wylie Walleye".[28]
• Cincinnati, Ohio - A flying pig is "flown" - not dropped [29], confirming there is at least one occasion "when pigs fly".

Pennsylvania

Topping the list where objects are dropped during events on New Year's Eve is Pennsylvania.[30]

• Allentown, Pennsylvania - A liberty bell replica is dropped to commemorate when the liberty bell was stored in Allentown during the American Revolution
• Akron, Pennsylvania - A purple-and-gold shoe.[31]
• Beavertown, Pennsylvania - A beaver.
• Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - A 100-pound yellow fiberglass illuminated Peep Drop, twice, during the "Peep Show". Trademark of Just Born, Inc. Bethlehem, PA, USA: Home of Marshmallow PEEPS Candies.
• Blain, Pennsylvania - A cow made of wood, dropped from a silo.
• Bradford, Pennsylvania - A ball, discontinued for 2011, brought back for 2012.
• Carlisle, Pennsylvania - An Indy car. [32] [33]
• Cleona, Pennsylvania - A pretzel (raised).
• Cornwall, Pennsylvania - A Cannonball Drop commemorating the historic Cornwall Iron Furnace. The Civil War era, bowling-ball-sized cannonball is courtesy of Sgt. Damian Smith, command historian for the Pennsylvania National Guard.
• Dillsburg, Pennsylvania - Two pickles; one at midnight UTC ("Mrs. Pickle") and the main drop at midnight Eastern Time.
• Duncannon, Pennsylvania - A sled.
• Easton, Pennsylvania - A ten foot Crayola crayon is dropped at 8 P.M. to accommodate little children's bedtimes
• Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania - A giant M&M, dropped at midnight UTC to correspond with midnight in sister city Letterkenny in Ireland.
• Falmouth, Pennsylvania - A stuffed goat.
• Frogtown, Pennsylvania - A frog.
• Gratz, Pennsylvania - A wildcat.
• Halifax, Pennsylvania - A Hemlock tree. [34] [35]
• Hallam, Pennsylvania - A replica of the Haines Shoe House.
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - A strawberry. [36]
• Hershey, Pennsylvania - A Hershey Kiss replica (raised). [37]
• Hummelstown, Pennsylvania - A lollipop. [38]
• Ickesburg, Pennsylvania - A french fry.
• Lancaster, Pennsylvania - A red rose (raised).
• Lebanon, Pennsylvania - A 100-pound stick of Lebanon Bologna.
• Lewistown, Pennsylvania - A bag of Hartley's potato chips.
• Lisburn, Pennsylvania - A pair of yellow pants or "britches" in honor of the Yellow Breeches Creek. [39].
• Lititz, Pennsylvania - A Moravian star (raised).
• Liverpool, Pennsylvania - A canal boat.
• Manheim, Pennsylvania - A ball (raised).
• Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania - A wrench. [40] [41]
• Middletown, Pennsylvania - A metal Rhombicuboctahedron, referred to by the organizers as a "sphoctagon" (portmanteau of sphere and octagon).
• New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania - A box huckleberry.
• New Oxford, Pennsylvania - An antique trunk.
• Newville, Pennsylvania - A big spring.
• Palmyra, Pennsylvania - "The Giant Shoe."[42]
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania- A ball which looked like the planet earth, made of recycled materials (raised).
• Port Royal, Pennsylvania - A sprint car.
• Pottsville, Pennsylvania - A bottle of Yuengling beer (raised).
• Red Lion, Pennsylvania - A wooden cigar held by a lion (raised).
• Richland, Pennsylvania - A cigar.[43]
• Shippensburg, Pennsylvania - An anchor.
• Strasburg, Pennsylvania - Ping pong balls.
• Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - See below.
• Shamokin, Pennsylvania - A chunk of coal that turns into a diamond at the bottom.[44] [45]
• York, Pennsylvania - A white rose.[46][47]

South Carolina

• Hilton Head Island, South Carolina - As part of its annual Harbour Town Lights holiday celebration and in honor of championship golf offerings at The Sea Pines Resort, such as Harbour Town Golf Links, and famed RBC Heritage golf tournament, an oversized, lit-up golf ball is dropped from the top of the Harbour Town Lighthouse overlooking Calibogue Sound. [48]]

Tennessee

• Gatlinburg, Tennessee - A ball.[49] [50]
• Knoxville, Tennessee - A ball on Market Square. [51]]

Virginia

• Richmond, Virginia - A copy of the Times Square Ball, yet it rises instead of drops, on the Byrd Theater in Carytown.
• Roanoke, Virginia - A 10 foot illuminated star.[52]
• Charlottesville, Virginia - A ball [53]
• Fredericksburg, Virginia - An illuminated pear.[54]

USA Central Time Zone

Alabama

• Mobile, Alabama - A 600-lb electric Moon Pie is dropped from the 33 Story tall RSA Tower at midnight in the biggest New Year event in the Central Time Zone. It is broadcasted locally by WKRG and throughout the nation on Raycom Media Stations. Before midnight, Chattanooga Bakery Inc., the maker of the Moon Pie marshmallow sandwich, serves up an edible 55-lb, 45,000-calories chocolate Moon Pie, nearly four feet in diameter. In addition to that, the bakery hands out 5,000 of the tasty treats to New Year’s Eve revelers.
• Fairhope, Alabama - A ball drop. Canceled for 2010, resumed in time to ring in 2011.
• Wetumpka, Alabama - A meteorite is dropped at the Old Courthouse at 11pm/CT in honor of the meteorite that hit the River City. At the stroke of midnight, a big fireworks display with light up the river.

Arkansas

• Fayetteville, Arkansas - A hog.[55]
• Fort Smith, Arkansas - KISR ball drop.[56] [57]

Florida Panhandle

• Panama City, Florida - An illuminated, 800-pound beach ball descends from a tower 12 stories high at midnight. At 8:30 p.m., fireworks and a "family ball drop", with 7,000 beach balls.
• Pensacola, Florida - A pelican.[58] Main Article:Pelican Drop

Illinois

• Des Plaines, Illinois - A diamond.[59]

Kansas

• Manhattan, Kansas - "The Little Apple", an apple-shaped aluminum ball.[60][61].

Louisiana

• New Orleans, Louisiana - A Gumbo Pot.[62] Discontinued in 2008. The new "drop" is a Fleur-de-lis.[63][64]

Mississippi

• Columbus, Mississippi - An illuminiated 10 foot wide by 10 foot tall lit aluminum ball hoisted over College Street 100 feet high as part of the "Having a Ball Downtown Block Party". Festivities are broadcast live on WCBI. For a complete listing of sponsors and details visit Main Street Columbus Website: Having A Ball Downtown New Year's Eve Block Party.

Oklahoma

• Bartlesville, Oklahoma - An olive.[65]
• Oklahoma City - A lighted ball is raised. The celebration is called Opening Night.[66][67]
• Tulsa - The Tulsa Ball Drop, held annually in Brookside, a district famous for its nightlife, features live music, performances, and a street party.

Tennessee

• Memphis, Tennessee - A guitar.[68][69]
• Nashville, Tennessee - An 80-foot Guitar Drop at Nashville's Hard Rock Cafe[70] during Music City's Bash On Broadway [71]. In 2011, the partnership ended with Hard Rock Cafe; thus, the guitar was exchanged for a 15-foot-tall music note.

Texas

• Austin, Texas - Lone Star [72](however, this may have been retired as of 2006; the transition to 2007 was a simple mirrored ball.)
• Houston, Texas - A star representing the Lone Star State, raised at midnight.[73] Noon Ball Drop at Children's Museum of Houston for families to celebrate New Year's Noon.[74]
• McAllen, Texas- A giant mirrored ball descends just before midnight. The first orb for 2008 was 6 feet in diameter, but in 2009 McAllen's big bash was expanded to include a bigger crowd (10,000 attended), a bigger party space and the BIGGER TEXAS-SIZED ball used ever since.

Wisconsin

• Plymouth, Wisconsin - Plymouth drops an 80-pound decorated cheese wedge, the newest Wisconsin cheese, from a 100 ft. ladder truck, a tribute to the region's dairy industry and dairy products. The Plymouth Arts Center hosts the annual “Build Your Own New Year’s Party,” next to the Creamery Building's parking lot where "The Big Cheese Drop" takes place.
• Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin - A carp (real but dead) weighing between 25 and 30 pounds caught by local fishers. A carp was chosen to represent the area's fishing industry and because the carp is considered one of the luckiest fish in Chinese culture. The carp, nicknamed “Lucky”, is lowered onto a throne. Each “Lucky” has a tree planted where he's burried with a commemorative plaque listing his name and year.

USA Mountain Time Zone

Arizona

The deuce of clubs is dropped in Show Low, Arizona.

• Flagstaff, Arizona - A pine cone[75] [76] is dropped from the balcony of Weatherford hotel.[77]
• Tempe, Arizona - An illuminated sunburst. The Fiesta Bowl Block Party [78][79][80] and Parade is sponsored by Sunkist (Replaced by a Giant Tortilla Chip, in recognition of Tostitos Tortilla Chips which took over the sponsorship from Sunkist.) The party is 10 blocks long and four blocks wide [81] with two fireworks shows (10 p.m. and midnight).
• Show Low, Arizona - A deuce of clubs (2♣); debuted 2011-12. The card, which is the namesake of the main road through Show Low, is, according to legend, the origin of the town's name (the town's founders allegedly derived the name "show low" from a game of poker, and the winner showed a 2♣, the lowest card in the deck).

Idaho

• Twin Falls, Idaho - A metal ball, valued at approximately US$14, driven by a 1961 Ford Econoline truck and a chain. The ball is lowered down a pair of abandoned grain elevators. It is the only ball drop in Idaho.[82]

USA Pacific Time Zone

Washington

• Seattle, Washington - The elevator of the Space Needle is raised, followed by a fireworks display from the landmark. The fireworks shoot across the night sky and an estimated 400,000 people will be able to view the show from galactic clusters near and far.[83][84]

California

• Orange County, California - An orange.[85]
• Sacramento, California - A ball (2008 and 2009), discontinued in 2010.

See also

• List of Christmas parades
• New Year's Eve
• First Night
• New Year's Day
• America's Party

External links

• http://www.newyearfestival.com
• http://www.newyearsdrop.com
• http://www.syddware.com/balldrop.html
• http://firstnightusa.org/

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