John Hughes couldn’t have written a better ’80s teen movie plot. In 1982, five high school buds as tight as the kids from The Breakfast Club took a trip to a lake cabin and snapped a picture.
After the picture was taken, one friend got a case of the sads and suggested, “what if we’re not friends 20 years from now?” The boys, who considered themselves brothers, decided at that moment to make a pact: In order to stay in touch throughout their adulthood, every five years they would meet up at the same cabin and take the same photo — on the same bench, sitting in the same order, striking the same poses, and making the same facial directions.
These friends — John Wardlaw, Mark Runner, Dallas Burney, John Molony, and John Dickson — did just that! Thirty years later they’ve compiled seven photos and its fascinating to see them age throughout the years…
1982: 19 years old
Left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony, John Dickson
1987: 24 years old
1992: 29 years old
1997: 34 years old
2002: 39 years old
2007: 44 years old
2012: 49 years old
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