2021

“Sushi,” portrayed by Gary Marion, waves to revelers Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022, after being lowered to Duval Street to welcome 2022 outside the Bourbon St. Pub in Key West, Fla. The Red Shoe Drop, a Key West tradition, is one of several "drops" staged in the Florida Keys to celebrate New Year's Eve. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Rob O'Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO)

“Sushi,” portrayed by Gary Marion, is lowered to Duval Street late Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, to welcome 2022 outside the Bourbon St. Pub in Key West, Fla. The Red Shoe Drop, a Key West tradition, is one of several "drops" staged in the Florida Keys to celebrate New Year's Eve. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Rob O'Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO)

Confetti flies as “Sushi," portrayed by female impersonator Gary Marion, hangs in a giant replica of a woman's red high heel over Duval Street late Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, at the Bourbon St. Pub in Key West, Fla. The Red Shoe Drop is a 24-year-old Key West New Year's Eve tradition and is one of several Florida Keys warm-weather takeoffs on New York City's Times Square ball drop marking the arrival of the new year. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Rob O'Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO)

Evalena Worthington rehearses being lowered from the mast of a sailing vessel late Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, at the Schooner Wharf Bar in Key West, Fla. The Pirate Wench Drop is one of a half-dozen Key West celebrations set for New Year's Eve to celebrate the dawn of 2022. Other drops include a drag queen in a large red high heel; a giant reproduction of a conch shell; a faux Key lime wedge tipping into an overside margarita glass and a “flight attendant” riding a scaled-down replica of a historic Pan American airplane. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO)