Celebrating the Peach: Behind the Scenes as Atlanta Rings in New Year
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Still thinking about your New Year's Eve celebration? Well, taking nothing away from Times Square in New York City, here in Atlanta it's kind of becoming the Times Square of the South. And we have this special, behind-the-scenes look from our photographer Adam Schumacher (ph) and producer Christina Park (ph).</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're here at Underground (ph) celebrating 2001, baby!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Want to see the peach come down.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Georgia's got peaches, baby. We don't want no apples, we want peaches, that's why.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dufus hat with "2001" on it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want one.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I got these for a buck.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got to come to Georgia for New Year's. Everybody knows that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We just going to enjoy it, let the kids see the peach thing. Never saw the peach. We drove all the way from Memphis, Tennessee.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Greensboro, North Carolina.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: New Orleans.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm from Germany, actually.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm from New York originally, but I've lived here in Atlanta now. But like I said, I'd rather be here now because there's a lot of snow in New York right now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have the Southern people and the hospitality that I don't think the New Yorkers have.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rub the horses.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, we've got it going on down here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: God is calling you to turn your heart back to him.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Out here preaching the gospel.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Making necklaces. See, you can wear them over your head, around your neck.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Funnel cakes, lots and lots of funnel cakes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hot chocolate.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What kind of ice cream?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What flavor? Are you vanilla, butterpecan...</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, it is millennium food. It will take you right through the new year.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OH, OK. Don't leave me hanging now. Don't leave me hanging.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: The peach falls down and we all yell and scream.</s>CROWD: Six, five, four, three, two, one!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Celebrating the peach, celebrating the peach!</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I mean, Atlanta doesn't have, you know, everything like New York has, but it's a pretty nice little city. It's more cleaner than New York.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I need a kiss. Oh, hi.</s>CROWD: Happy new year.</s>KAGAN: The guy got his kiss, so he had a good New Year's.