I'm with Aggie59. Not known to many people IN the Valley -
but in his day and time Bobby Morrow was FAMOUS.
When I was a kid my mom would drag me to buy clothes in his El Mercado Mall shop where his gold medals were on display.
ETA - I didn't see your post RGV. BM did eventually return to the Valley and had a clothing store in Harlingen. His story is not at all a fairy tale - he has shunned spotlight and attention he received for his running. In his personal life he was victim to some less than upstanding individuals. I don't know him personally but I remember him when I was young and he was a kind and gentle man. Here is a Texas Monthly article from 1984 on one of the Valley's most 'famous':
http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/fastest-nice-christian-boy-worldquote:
"I have shunned publicity rather than sought it out. I like for people to know me for what I am, not what I've done. It was unbelievable. I was invited to address a joint session of the Texas Legislature in Austin, just because I was able to run. I hadn't done anything else. That's what I don't like. I want people to like me for what I am. But it's not that way. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce named me one of the nine Great Living Americans. Listen to the guys that were in there: Clare Boothe Luce, Cecil B. DeMille, Norman Rockwell. Just because I went to the Olympic Games and had the natural ability that my mother probably gave me through birth, why should I be named one of the nine Great Living Americans? Just because of my legs."
[This message has been edited by Centerpole90 (edited 1/6/2014 10:38a).]