The Personal Loop

July 1982, the group was aged around 19. Molony was holding a jar with a cockroach the group had found.

CNN recently reported on a group of friends who have met together periodically for the past 30 years to take the same picture. They plan to keep meeting at Copco Lake, California, to take another picture every five years until they die. They are, from left to right: John Wardlaw, Mark Rumer, Dallas Burney, John Molony and John Dickson. The photographs are © John Wardlaw.

While CNN focused on the way the Generation Jones group aged and their hairstyles changed, there are two stories here. One is how the men are changing over time. The other is the fact that they have not changed, in that they have remained friends over time.

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Video Source: CNN.