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Porterdale Mill on the Yellow
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Porterdale Mill on the Yellow
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MEMORIES OF PRENTIS I’m Billy Payne, and unlike
others that have written, I was privileged to have known Prentis since
our days growing up as young boys on Elm St
in Porterdale. We made wooden race carts that we raced on the
steep hills behind Elm St. We roamed the woods down to the “Rock
House” on the banks of the Yellow River. He stayed with me when I had
the mumps hoping he would “catch” them so he could stay home from
school. We tested each other’s skill at identifying every plane used
in WW11. We did the same with cars, including make, model and year made.
We loved to make model airplanes also. We were like one big
family, going from one friend’s house to the other. I remember that
his Mother made delicious peanut butter cakes. I remember one time in
the late ‘40’s,Prentis and a friend of his from Cedartown rode their
motorcycles to the Indy 500 race with Bobby Payne riding shotgun behind
Prentis. Billy Payne
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