A familiar spot for North Georgia native Bobby Whitmire in the mid 1950s - victory lane at a Georgia short track. Photo courtesy the Bobby Whitmire collection
For years, Hugh Blackstock has told me about getting with Bobby Whitmire and Charles Probst. Not thinking that I am getting any older, I figured these guys would be around for years to come.
Then Charles died in a car accident near Gainesville, Georgia. That made me realize that I’m getting too old and Bobby and Charles were way ahead of me.
I got Bobby’s telephone number from Leonard Cole and called him. I wanted to meet up with him at Hugh’s shop in Gainesville while John Blackstock worked on MY van. I emphasize the MY because it’s paid for.
When Bobby got there, I wondered about his age. He looked no older than my 63 years, but I found out he is 78 going on 79. Bobby has taken good care of himself through the years.
“I had to,” Bobby said. “About 1966, I had a heart attack and have been on medication for almost 50 years.”
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His birthday is February 5, 1931.
“I was born near the Forsyth County and Hall County line at home,” he told us. For you young readers, that happened a lot in the thirties and forties – being born at home was what used to be the norm in a rural area. Now it’s off to the hospital.
“My father was Ray Whitmire and my mother was Agnus Waldrip Whitmire,” Bobby said. “Daddy was a farmer, or to be more exact, a chicken farmer. He and Perry Parks went in together with the chicken business. He finally put out on his own and stayed in the chicken business a lot of years. ”
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