Dec 30, 2008 8:00 am US/Eastern
Wacky New Year's Eve 'Dropping' Traditions
(CBS 3)
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Times Square New Year's Eve ball with energy-efficient LED lights, during annual test of the ball. (File)
AP
Everyone knows about the New Year's Eve tradition in Times Square that includes the dropping of the ball, but did you know that other towns across the country also drop things on New Year's.
Here are some of the wacky "dropping" traditions from around the U.S. -- according to the Web site
www.newyearseve.com:
Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona - a pine cone
Tempe, Arizona - a tortilla chip into a jar of salsa
Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia - a peach
Cornelia, Georgia - an apple
Florida
Key West, Florida - a conch shell, a pirate wench and a red high-heel shoe
Miami, Florida - an orange
Kansas
Manhattan, Kansas - a 5-foot (1.5-meter) aluminum ball
Maine
Bangor, Maine - a purple beach ball decorated with Christmas lights.
Maryland
Ocean City, Maryland - a beach ball
Havre de Grace, Maryland - a duck decoy
Michigan
Marquette, Michigan - a metal ball
New Jersey
Point Pleasant, New Jersey - a mossbunker fish
New York
Buffalo - Lit ball similar to the one dropped in New York City.
New York City - 1,070-pound (485-kilogram) Waterford Crystal ball
Orange County - Motorcycle wheel
Greenport, Suffolk County - an anchor
North Carolina
Brasstown, North Carolina - a live opossum in a cage
Mount Olive, North Carolina - a pickle
Raleigh, North Carolina - an acorn
Charlotte, North Carolina - a large crown
Ohio
Port Clinton, Ohio - a walleye fish, named "Captain Wylie Walleye"
Pennsylvania
Cleona, Pennsylvania - a pretzel
Dillsburg, Pennsylvania a pickle
Duncannon, Pennsylvania - a sled
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania - a giant M&M
Falmouth, Pennsylvania - a stuffed goat
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - a strawberry
Hanover, Pennsylvania - a black rose (discontinued)
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania - a lollipop
Lancaster, Pennsylvania - a red rose
Lebanon, Pennsylvania - a bologna
Liverpool, Pennsylvania - a canal boat
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania - a wrench
New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania - a huckleberry
Newville, Pennsylvania - spring
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania- a Heinz Ketchup bottle
Pottsville, Pennsylvania - a bottle of Yuengling beer
Red Lion, Pennsylvania - a cigar
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania - an anchor
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - a chunk of coal that turns into a diamond at the bottom
York, Pennsylvania - a white rose
Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee - ball, but the ball will rise instead of fall.
Virginia
Fredericksburg, Virginia - two pears
Wisconsin
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin - a carp
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