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Project Drive-In roundup 4: The list that wouldn’t die

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In the third installment of our roundup of candidates for Honda’s Project Drive-In, I predicted that Honda would choose more than five lucky recipients of digital projectors. What I really didn’t anticipate was that Honda would reopen voting for the second set of winners.

With another round of voting comes another round of candidates that we haven’t mentioned so far, along with some (marked with an asterisk) who saw new stories about them after voting was extended. If you’re reading this, you’re already online, so go vote for your favorite!

* This drive-in was in a previous roundup, but a new story has been published about it after Honda extended voting for Project Drive-In.

99W takes the fifth Honda projector

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The 99W Drive-In (Newberg OR) is the fifth but not final winner of Honda’s Project Drive-In. As I predicted, Honda has reopened voting and will award four more digital projectors. According to the Project Drive-In site, voting will continue until Saturday, and the next four winners will be announced September 23.

Meanwhile, Portland’s news leader KATU picked up the 99W’s success story. It quoted co-owner Camille Francis’s reaction. “We are so happy,” she said. “We are putting it up on our marquee, people are cheering – it’s just really awesome.”

The 99W, which opened in 1953, is the only West Coast drive-in to win so far. “When the first winner was announced, they had 30,000 Facebook fans and we only have 7,000,” Francis said. “And we were watching every day and watching the winners. And we thought only East Coast drive-ins would win.”

There are a few nice photos and more details in the KATU story, so you really should go read it. And you can watch the pre-award video, embedded above, from KGW, Portland’s other news leader. And when you’re done with all that, go vote again. Let’s keep more drive-ins alive.

Project Drive-In roundup 3: Dark of the screen

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I warned you that it might come to this. With less than a week left in Honda’s Project Drive-In voting period, I’ve found media reports about a few more of the candidates.

Here’s something confusing: Some of those media reports only partially duplicate other reports. That is, if a new story lists drive-ins A, B, and C, but a story from one of my first two round-ups already mentioned A and C, then I’ve added B as a new candidate in this third round-up. If you click through to the story, it’ll mention all three, but we know that B is the only one that’s new to this list. Okay?

With that in mind, let’s go through a few more:

And that should hold us on Project Drive-In news until they start talking about winners. Wouldn’t it be nice if Honda chose more than five?