Tonight the ball will drop in Times Square (for the first time in a long time without Dick Clark), ushering in a new year. Let's take a look back how the night was observed in previous decades:
Here's The Boss counting down to the midnight hour at Nassau Coliseum in 1980:
Times Square, 1979-1980:
Times Square, 1977-1978
Times Square, 1965-1967:
And here's a CBS broadcast of New Year's Eve, 1966-1967, from Roseland Ballroom:
In 1957, with "Mr. New Year's Eve himself, Guy Lombardo":
NYE in NYC in 1933!:
