Peach Drop (Atlanta, Georgia)
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The Peach Drop is the name for the downtown Atlanta New Year's Eve celebration. It is so called because a giant replica of a peach is dropped in the style of a time ball, in a similar style to the ball drop in Times Square (New York City).
It is held each year on December 31 at Underground Atlanta.
The Peach Drop attracts over 100,000 people to Underground Atlanta every year[1][2] This would place the Peach Drop as the largest such celebration in the Southeastern United States (as it proudly proclaims) and the second largest event of its kind in the United States, behind the famous Times Square Ball (which draws approximately one million) and ahead of the 40,000[3] that the third-place Buffalo Ball Drop of Buffalo, New York draws each year.
A television broadcast of the event airs live on WATL and across the country on the America One network.[4][5] A separate broadcast on WSB-TV airs the drop in split screen with Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
[edit] References
- ^ Boone, Christian.How to navigate this year's Atlanta Peach Drop Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 30 December 2008
- ^ Peach Drop 2006 - The Largest New Year's Eve Celebration in the Southeast
- ^ Fink, James. Eve organizers look for crowd of 40,000. Buffalo Business First. 29 December 2008
- ^ Peach Drop 2006 - The Largest New Year's Eve Celebration in the Southeast
- ^ America One schedule-- Last week of December 2008.
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