Peach Drop (Atlanta, Georgia)
- Peach Drop (Atlanta, Georgia)
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 event draws "tens of thousands" of viewers each year, according to a press release [ [http://www.peachdrop.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=12&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Peach Drop 2006 - The Largest New Year's Eve Celebration in the Southeast ] ] from the organization. This would place the Peach Drop as the largest such celebration in the Southeastern United States (as it proudly proclaims) and the second or third largest event of its kind in the United States, behind the famous Times Square Ball and very close to the 40,000 [http://www.97rock.com/balldrop/] that the "97 Rock Ball Drop" of Buffalo, New York draws each year.
A television broadcast of the event is packaged and syndicated on stations across the country in addition to airing live on WATL. [ [http://www.peachdrop.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Peach Drop 2006 - The Largest New Year's Eve Celebration in the Southeast ] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.peachdrop.com/ Peach Drop official site]
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