![]() The five guys told CNN they ended up in a German museum exhibit on friendship. Their photo was displayed in Costco’s magazine. Once again, their images went viral, spinning around social media sites where their appearance was both mercilessly dissected and praised. “There are some dumb quotes you can never put in any articles,” said Wardlaw. “There were responses to (three of us) going shirtless. Some said we looked pretty good, and it was brave after 50.”įour of the friends are 59 years old. Rumer-Cleary called the attention the photos have generated surreal and says at times, strangers will stop him. “It’s happened to me for a couple reasons,” said the software engineer who founded Occam Networks. They won’t pick it out right off the bat. The five friends, all graduates of Santa Barbara High School, took the first photo in the now-familiar pose in their late teens with an automatic camera timer in 1982. Their reunions take place at the Copco Lake cabin built by Wardlaw’s grandfather in 1970. They’ve fished, hiked, barbecued, picked berries for homemade pies and pranked each other over the years. Molony described late night knocks on walls, firecrackers tossed into a bedroom in retaliation and relentless teasing.ĭickson confessed he nicknamed Wardlaw “Wedge” because of his definition of the shape of his friend’s head after a haircut. “So, it stuck.”ĭickson is the only one who still lives in Santa Barbara, where he runs a tourism website. Molony is a New Orleans-based photographer.
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