Everyone knows about the famous ball that drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, but just in case you can’t get to New York or are looking for something a bit zanier, here are 50 quirky things that are dropped by cities across the US. Most have some relationship to the locale, but a couple are just because someone started it and it became tradition. In aggregating this list, I couldn’t help but notice that Pennsylvania seems to have more New Year’s spirit than many other states. Does your hometown drop anything unusual at the stroke of the New Year?
- Atlanta, GA – an 8 foot round, 800 pound foam and fiberglass peach
- Bethlehem, PA – an 85 pound glowing fiberglass resin Peep
- Blain, PA – a cow
- Brasstown, NC – a live possum (released unharmed after the descent)
- Dillsburg, PA – a 6 foot paper mache pickle
- Duncannon, PA – a 10 foot sled
- Easton, MD – an oversized model of a blue crab
- Eastport, ME – a sardine
- Elizabethtown, PA – M&Ms
- Elmore, OH – a sausage
- Falmouth, PA – a goat
- Fayetteville, AR – a hog
- Flagstaff, AZ – a 6 foot, 70 pound pine cone
- Fredericksburg, VA – A chicken wire pear covered in yellow tape
- Frogtown, PA – a frog (of course!)
- Gratz, PA – a wildcat
- Harrisburg, PA – a large strawberry
- Hershey, PA – a giant Hershey kiss (raised)
- Houston, TX – a star representing the Lone star state (raised)
- Hummelstown, PA – a lollipop
- Key West, FL – a live pirate wench, a giant conch shell, and a female impersonator named Sushi
- Lancaster, PA – a red rose (raised)
- Lebanon, PA – a 12 foot long, 200 pound stick of bologna
- Lewistown, PA – a bag of potato chips
- Lititz, PA – a pretzel
- Liverpool, PA – a canal boat
- Manhattan, KS – an apple
- Manheim, PA – an orb
- Mechanicsburg, PA – a wrench
- Memphis, TN – a brightly lit Gibson Les Paul guitar
- Miami, FL – an orange
- New Bloomfield, PA – a huckleberry
- New Orleans, LA – recently a pot of gumbo, but this year changing to a 9 foot tall gold fleur-de-lis
- New Oxford, PA – an antique trunk
- New York City, NY – the iconic 11,875 pound Waterford crystal ball
- Mobile, AL – a 12 foot round Moon Pie
- Mount Olive, NC – a pickle (oh, the irony!)
- Pensacola, FL – a 13 foot tall illuminated Pelican with a 17 foot wingspan
- Pittsburgh, PA – a globe
- Plymouth, WI – an 80 pound cheese wedge
- Port Clinton, OH – 19 foot, 60 pound fiberglass Walleye fish
- Pottsville, PA – a Yuengling Beer bottle
- Raleigh, NC – a 10 foot tall, 1250 pound acorn
- Red Lion, PA – a cigar (raised)
- Seattle, WA – the Space Needle elevator (raised)
- Seven Valleys, PA – a chicken
- Shippensburg, PA – an anchor
- Steelton, PA – a steamroller
- Terre Haute, IN – watermelons
- York, PA – a white rose
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