{"id":205377,"date":"2019-03-05T23:52:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=205377"},"modified":"2019-03-05T23:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:52:59","slug":"riverdale-diner-in-mission-b-c-to-create-milkshake-honouring-luke-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/05\/riverdale-diner-in-mission-b-c-to-create-milkshake-honouring-luke-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Riverdale’ diner in Mission, B.C., to create milkshake honouring Luke Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kelly Sullivan says the CW program based on the \u201cArchie\u201d comics filmed part of its first season at Rocko’s 24-Hour Diner before a replica set was built. (File Photo<\/a>: Rockos Diner\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MISSION, B.C. \u2014 The manager of a diner where Luke Perry filmed the television show \u201cRiverdale\u201d in Mission, B.C., says fans have been trickling in to reminisce about the actor since his death Monday.<\/p>\n

Kelly Sullivan says the CW program based on the \u201cArchie\u201d comics filmed part of its first season at Rocko’s 24-Hour Diner before a replica set was built.<\/p>\n

Perry, who played the role of Archie Andrews’ father Fred Andrews, died at age 52 after suffering a stroke.<\/p>\n

Sullivan says the diner is thinking of creating a milkshake in Perry’s name but hasn’t settled on a flavour. It already serves 46 flavours of milkshakes, with four named for Archie characters including a strawberry-apple pie \u201cArchie shake\u201d and cherry cola \u201cVeronica shake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry had a prolific career but is best known for his role as wealthy teen rebel Dylan McKay on \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210,\u201d which ran from 1990 to 2000.<\/p>\n

Sullivan says \u201cRiverdale\u201d fans have visited the diner since the show first aired but a few told her Monday they’d come sooner than planned because of the actor’s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a nice place to come and reminisce about him. He was a great actor and a lot of people followed him so it’s nice to come to a place that he actually came to and filmed at,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Brenna Dempsey and Joanne Crowder said they drove about an hour Tuesday to eat lunch at the diner in Perry’s honour.<\/p>\n

The friends, 46 and 44 respectively, said they became fans of Perry while watching \u201c90210\u201d in high school and have followed his career ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to come to lunch to think about Luke Perry and the sadness of it all,\u201d said Dempsey, who lives in Maple Ridge.<\/p>\n

\u201c90210 started when I was in high school. It was something everyone my age was watching and it grew from there, I’ve always been a Luke Perry fan since then,\u201d Dempsey said.<\/p>\n

Crowder said she appreciated that \u201cRiverdale\u201d films in Canada, adding that Perry’s \u201c90210\u201d co-star Jason Priestley is from the Vancouver area.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was too young, he wasn’t really much older than us,\u201d said Crowder, who is from Port Coquitlam.<\/p>\n

Perry had roles in a handful of films, including \u201cThe Fifth Element,\u201d \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d \u201c8 Seconds\u201d and \u201cAmerican Strays,\u201d appeared in HBO’s prison drama \u201cOz\u201d as a televangelist convicted of fraud, and voiced cartoons including \u201cThe Incredible Hulk\u201d and \u201cMortal Kombat.\u201d<\/p>\n

He made his Broadway musical debut as Brad in the \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show,\u201d and starred on London’s West End in another stage adaptation of a film, \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally.\u201d In recent years he starred in the series \u201cTies That Bind\u201d and \u201cBody of Proof.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day he was hospitalized, Fox TV announced that it would be running a six-episode return of \u201c90210\u201d featuring most of the original cast, but Perry was not among those announced.<\/p>\n

On the original series, Perry’s character went from loner to part of a close-knit circle that included twins Brenda and Brandon Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty and Priestley), but also endured a string of romantic, family and other setbacks, including drug addiction. Perry left the series in 1995 to pursue other roles, returning in 1998 for the rest of the show’s run as a guest star.<\/p>\n

\u2014 With files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n

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