I'm Prentiss Davis and I live in Truckee, California with my beautiful wife Helen. 

I was born in New Orleans Louisiana and lived there with my mother in my grandfather’s home until I was seven years old.  At that time my grandfather died and not long afterward my father returned from Germany where he had been serving in the US Army.  During the next year we lived in Georgia and Texas before returning to New Orleans.

When I was twelve my mother married a man who lived in Connecticut and we moved there where I would live until I was 27 years old.  My stepfather worked at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and my mother was with Southern New England Bell Telephone.  I first lived in and attended school in Seymour Connecticut and later The Catholic school in Derby.  We moved to Wallingford where I attended eighth grade and graduated from Lyman Hall High School.  

Growing up, I spent much of my free time fishing and playing baseball.  After high school, I enroled at Southern Connecticut State College and later attended college in California.

In my early teens, I worked as a caddy at Wallingford Country Club.  Later jobs included working at Milton's Army Navy store in Wallingford and the local car wash.  At sixteen, I began working as a truck driver and warehouse man at Connecticut Bearings, an auto parts wholesaler. This soon led to a job in the parts department at Valenti Chevrolet in Wallingford.  Soon the owners offered to send me to the General Motors training center in New York to learn management.   About this time I became interesting in drag racing and bought a new ‘61Chevy for that purpose.  My life was filled with working at Valenti and drag racing until 1963 when I took a summer job at Pratt & Whitney as a lathe operator and sold my race car.   After three month, I accepted a job as a salesman for Aaronson Brothers Paper Co, a printing paper jobber in Brooklyn NY where I worked until I received my draft notice in November.  The Army decided it didn’t want me until April so I worked at Jackson Chevrolet in Middletown CT until then.

In the Army, I trained at Ft Dix NJ as an infantry communications specialists.  Returning to Connecticut, I first accepted a job at the phone company but instead began driving a tractor trailer truck for United Parcel Service. Shortly afterwards, the owner of Valenti Chevrolet invited me back and I went to work there.   After about a year, I was recruited by Partyka Chevrolet, a large, modern Chevy dealership in Hamden CT where I worked until moving to California in July 1970.  During these years my free time was consumed with drag racing, motorcycles, my social life and travel.  I also served as an NCO in The Connecticut National Guard.  I was mostly involved with the same young woman from 1962 to 1970.

After leaving Connecticut, I spent a month in New Orleans and visited my father and his family in San Antonio Texas.   I eventually settled in Huntington Beach CA and went to work at the local Chevrolet dealership.  After a few months, I took a job at Savin Business Machines in Carson CA as a copy machine salesman.  My neighbor at this time was sales manager for International Playtex and he soon offered me a lingerie sales job which I accepted.  I was at Playtex for four years and during this time I met and married my first wife.  In 1974 I was recruited by Maidenform and worked there for eight years.  While at maidenform,  I bought my house in Newport Beach, divorced my first wife and remarried.  I later worked for Bali and was working at Wacoal when my second marriage ended.  Leaving Wacoal, I began working at I. Appel where I was employed  for ten years.  In 1995 my job at I. Appel ended and I became a salesman for  Guess Athletic Footwear.  This led to a position at HYI where I sourced private label footwear in China.

In 2001, while changing planes in Las Vegas I met my wife Helen and soon moved to Truckee CA near Lake Tahoe in The Sierra Nevada Mountains.

I continued in the footwear business  until 2005 when I began selling real-estate in Truckee, North lake Tahoe California.  Recently, I was licensed to instruct driver education and we are now operating  a driver training school in Truckee.

My hobbies continue to involve automobiles and motorcycles and I remain a comitted reader of books mostly concerning history.biography and political subjects.