FIVE GUYS
10 dollar burgers
6 buck shakes
5 buck fries
Posted on 06/16/2022 12:09:21 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Five friends' celebrated photo taken every five years at the same California lake is out for the world to see despite one man's recent cancer scare.
They took photo No. 9 on Wednesday, 40 years after they shot the first in 1982 at a prefabricated cabin at Copco Lake along the California-Oregon border. Their tradition went viral 10 years ago -- and again in 2017 -- when CNN.com published their story and photos.
Some of the guys openly feared it could be a photo of four friends this year instead of the five first pictured as teenagers.
"I was crushed," said John Dickson, who lives in Santa Barbara where the friends first met. "We worried there would be an empty spot on the bench where we take the picture."
Dallas Burney, seated in the middle of the series of photos that replicate the poses of the very first shot, told CNN he had a large cancerous tumor removed from his left leg in 2019.
"My cancer -- liposarcoma, I knew something was wrong for many months," said the elementary school teacher. "I was out of school for five months. I can't run anymore, but I sure can walk."
Burney walked with ease around Copco Lake on Tuesday evening with Dickson, Mark Rumer-Cleary, Jon Molony and their host, John "Wedge" Wardlaw.
They had not all been together since the last photo in 2017. Burney's cancer and the pandemic made reunions difficult.
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I met my best bud in 1973. He is my hunting/fishing/drinking/cigar smoking partner in crime.
We are going on a fishing trip in a week.
And my wife likes him so that’s a plus.
Their fries are outstanding! And that photo is making me hungry!
Lotta Burger!
You don’t actually lose hair. It migrates to other parts of the body.
That looks like a good burger.
I wrote a letter about it to corporate hq and got a nice letter in return along with a 1 year any time any place FREE card from the lady in customer service. That was nice. It reminded me of an encounter I had at John Wayne Airport with Carl Karcher where he dropped his briefcase and I helped him scoop up all his files and papers and he gave me a FREE Gold Card too. I didn’t even know it was Carl Karcher
Overpriced, and bad experience with their peanuts.
They look like Patriot Front.
Crazy. Five Guys are gonna close. People are going to McD’s instead.
Even more expensive than Chick-Fil-A.
Does anyone here actually discuss the men having a portfolio of their aging?
When you are my age (88), it would be fine to just have a picture with 4 other same-aged oldsters, even if they were strangers...😏
McD’s cost my bh and I almost $20.00 now where it use to be around $12.00.
We are on a modest fixed income and too old to be hired anymore.
We are screwed!
Not bitching, just looking at reality and seeing a bleak future .. not only for my lady and I but for many!
Yes, my lady is a Real woman!😁
“Plus the race hate from the “staff” was overt and shocking.”
I get that too.
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