St. Paul bar will be bobbing into 2023

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KEYC) - Watching the ball drop in New York’s famous Times Squares is a New Year’s Eve tradition.

But a bar in St. Paul is hoping to make a new tradition for locals.

The Midway Saloon built a giant fishing bobber that they will drop when the clock strikes midnight on Saturday.

The bobber has a six-foot diameter. It’s 16 feet all the way around.

It’ll be attached to a crane 50-100 feet in the air - and then it’ll slowly drop during the midnight countdown.

The bobber is filled with air, and not much heavier than a beach ball.

If this works, he bar hopes to do a similar drop every year.

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