When five teenagers sat down and posed for a picture at Copco Lake
in 1982, they didn't plan on making it a tradition. But that's what it became.
Every
five years for the past three decades, John Wardlaw, John Dickson, Mark Rumer,
Dallas Burney and John Molony have been meeting at the California lake and
taking the same photo.
The
first photograph of the high school friends was just happenstance. Wardlaw,
known as Wedge in the group, had a family cabin at the lake
where the friends
gathered in July 1982.
The seven pictures to date are
framed and hang on the wall of the cabin. The men still listen to the same '80s
music they were listening to when they were 19 years old.
"I'm
not in the same place I thought I'd be, but I'm in the right place," said
Dickson. "Without this photo, there's no way we'd be together."
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Five teenagers posed for a photo at Copco Lake in 1982 that started a tradition spanning 30 years. The men plan to keep posing for the photo every five years until they die. From left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson.
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From left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson in 1987.
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From left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson in 1992.
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From left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson in 1997.
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From left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson in 2002.
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From left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson in 2007.
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From left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson in 2012.CNN
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