On a typical York County New Year's Eve, merrymakers drop a cigar, a pickle and a white rose.
A 125-pound, papier-maché shoe will be lowered from a bucket truck onto the parapet of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Hallam, Pa.
The original big shoe, the Haines Shoe House
Was built in 1948, was by far "Colonel" Mahlon N. Haines' most outlandish advertising gimmick. It is a wood frame structure covered with wire lath and coated with a cement stucco. It measures 48 ft. in length, 17 ft. in width at the widest part and 25 ft. in height. The interior consists of five different levels and contains three bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen and living room.
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