Talk:List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve/Archive 1

Steelton, Pennsylvania
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Cleona, Pennsylvania
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Havre de Grace, Maryland
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Marquette, Michigan
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Newport, Pennsylvania
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Richland, Pennsylvania
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Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania
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Point Pleasant, New Jersey
I would like to question the references of whoever added Point Pleasant, NJ to this list. I have lived in Point Pleasant all my life and I have never seen a mossbunker fish dropped. As far as I know we don't drop anything, let alone a fish. Thanks. -Flyingcheese 02:20, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * See here69.85.180.177 06:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC

The link says the article doesn't exist.--Flyingcheese 00:02, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The link worked for me, although it got stuck loading and I had to refresh to see the article. Here's an excerpt:
 * Take Mo The Millennium Mossbunker. The fishing community of Point Pleasant has adopted a 10-foot wooden replica of an Atlantic bait fish, covered with 1,500 Mylar scales, as the centerpiece of its New Year's Eve celebration.


 * The big ball-drop at Times Square will have nothing on Point Pleasant when Mo is lowered down a 40-foot scaffold outside a bowling alley, after being taken a mile out to sea aboard a fishing boat, returned to land and paraded through the streets.
 * --Birdhombre 15:24, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay, but the thing is we don't have a bowling alley in Point Pleasant, we had one until 2005 until the roof collapsed, and anyway from the name of the fish I'd be willing to bet it was only dropped on New Year's Eve 2000. That's just my opinion on things though.--Ryan ♣ 00:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Key West, Florida
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Sources needed
Since User:70.48.68.155 removed all of the entries (including, ironically, the Times Square ball drop itself) from the list, I thought I'd copy it here until we can find sources for them. I imagine a few quick Googles will turn up citations for most of them, but I don't have time to do it at the moment. I did verify Port Clinton's walleye drop though. I also removed the "sources required" tag from the article, and suggest we only add items to the list if we can include a citation.

Arizona
 * Flagstaff, Arizona - a pine cone
 * Tempe, Arizona - a tortilla chip into a jar of salsa

California
 * Orange County, California - an orange

Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia
 * Atlanta, Georgia - a peach
 * Cornelia, Georgia - an apple

Florida
 * Key West, Florida - a conch shell, a pirate wench and a drag queen in 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 (See Times Square 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)
 * Hershey, Pennsylvania - Hershey Kiss replica
 * 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- ball, but the ball will rise instead of fall
 * 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

District of Columbia
 * Washington, DC - a postage stamp


 * I'm a Wiki edit n00b so I don't wish to mess up this page but here is an article that lists a bunch of these in it. I'm not sure if it counts as verification or not, but it lists


 * Flagstaff, AZ


 * Port Clinton, OH


 * Hershey, PA


 * Pottsville, PA


 * Lebanon, PA


 * Red Lion, PA


 * Elizabethtown, PA


 * Dillsburg, PA


 * York, PA


 * Lancaster, PA


 * Mechanicsburg, PA


 * Hummelstown, PA


 * Harrisburg, PA


 * Falmouth, PA


 * Pittsburgh, PA


 * From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette []
 * Dillsburg confirmation []
 * --147.160.136.10 20:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:New Year celebrations Category:Holiday lists

Source Found (?)

 * excerpted from a 2004 article at:
 * http://www.local6.com/holidays/4026473/detail.html
 * In the last 2-3 years, I have seen on TV (next day news) the wrench, the strawberry, both roses, the goat, pickle, cigar and bologna. I live just outside of Hummelstown but this is the first I've heard of the lollipop.  My son went to college in Shippensburg, he never mentioned the anchor.
 * The full article has details on the why's and how's of the various items. (full article copyright - Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.)
 * ...  reported [by] WGAL-TV in Lancaster.
 * Blain - a wooden cow
 * Cleona - a pretzel
 * Dillsburg - a pickle
 * Duncannon - a sled
 * Elizabethtown - a M&M candy
 * Falmouth - a stuffed goat
 * Harrisburg - a strawberry
 * Hummelstown - a lollipop.
 * Lancaster - a Red Rose
 * Lebanon - a bologna (real meat)
 * Liverpool - a canal boat
 * Manheim - an orb.
 * Mechanicsburg - a wrench
 * Middletown - a ball
 * New Bloomfield - a huckleberry
 * Newville - a spring.
 * Red Lion - a cigar.
 * Shippensburg - an anchor
 * York - a White Rose
 * BillZjr 21:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * New Bloomfield - a huckleberry
 * Newville - a spring.
 * Red Lion - a cigar.
 * Shippensburg - an anchor
 * York - a White Rose
 * BillZjr 21:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * BillZjr 21:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * BillZjr 21:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I've heard of several of these on the news before. As for Shippensburg, I live there, and they definitely have the anchor drop every year. This recent article verifies the Shippensburg anchor (includes photo), Newville spring, Dillsburg pickle, Duncannon sled, and Mechanicsburg wrench, and also adds the Indy car for Carlisle (new this year). - Bluedeer 06:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Definition
Are all the things listed here actually traditions (drop a pine cone every year), or just what they've done in one year (dropped a pine cone in 2006)? The definition probably should mention this, one way or the other. Quack 688 05:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * From what I saw while searching for references, all of them are yearly traditions, with the possible exception of one. I'm sure all of the ones listed for Pennsylvania are annual, as I've seen them featured on the local news every year. (Some are new for this year, but they plan on doing them every year.)


 * The only one that looked to be a one-time event, judging by the article, was the mossbunker fish in Point Pleasant, NJ. It sounds like that one was most likely just for the turn of the millennium. The article even refers to him as Mo the Millennium Mossbunker.


 * Some of the articles listed as references even list the number of years the "drop" has been taking place - for instance, 17 years for Harrisburg, 14 years for Dillsburg, 6 years for Shippensburg, and 3 years for Mechanicsburg. (The pine cone you mentioned has been dropping annually for the last 8 years.) Bluedeer 05:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay...
So WHY do I remember a turkey drop on a public television station?~user:orngjce223how am I typing? 01:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you sure it wasn't Public Access TV? 68.39.174.238 15:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Replicas
It's not at all obvious, until clicking the references, that all these traditions involve replicas - large fake peaches etc. This should be clearer. 129.67.127.65 (talk) 20:52, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Port Royal, PA
Port Royal, Pennsylvania is dropping a Sprint Car (race car) this year for New Year's Eve. Sprint car racing is very popular in this rural town.

Article here to verify: http://www.lewistownsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/511267.html?nav=5006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 3fingersalute (talk • contribs) 13:42, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Added and referenced.J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 01:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)