Great photo of Prefontaine training on Fargo Street in LA

People have also died because they were wearing a seat belt - from getting trapped in one and burning to death.

It appears that there is snow where Pre is running. If it is, that's not Fargo St. I grew up three blocks away, and it hasn't snowed there since the late 40's or early 50's.

Suburb...? I grew up in Echo Park which is less than five miles from LA City Hall.

I think that you are seeing flowers on the trees and reflected sunlight on the pavement.

It is an old black and white photo.

Pre is dressed cool conditions, but the gentleman behind him on the left does not appear to be dressed for snow conditions - even by L.A. standards for the rare snow that sometimes falls here in the basin.

Letsrun and Yanks in general love Pre. He's the archetypal US distance runner. Wins nothing. Does nothing. Offers nothing. However he does allow other people to make money.

Money > sporting success. That's the American way.

Remember kids, drive fast, drive drunk, don't wear a seatbelt, due a hero with no medals

This is a sketch that I found of PRE out for a run:

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Pre was an archetypical 70s L.A. hippie. That's what made him great.

It looks like he's pulling that pedestrian up the hill with a cord tied from his waist to the guy's head.

People like Pre, Rafer Johnson, JJK, Allyson Felix, etc. is why LA84 and LA28 was awarded to Los Angeles.

Millions from the countryside fail L.A. but Pre was one of the few who made something of himself in L.A.

Echo Park is literally a couple miles from DTLA..it’s definitely not the suburbs or the valley as a few like to call it.

What did he do? How did he make something of himself? Last time I looked he won 0 Olympic medals

That is a power line.

Long-time Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz resident here. Echo Park absolutely is part of LA (we Angelenos rarely use periods).

Who cares? That wasn’t the point of the post.

Same here. It’s also a shame how most of Echo Park declined, despite some gentrification. It’s basically a dump. Silverlake has gotten much dirtier over the years and Los Feliz is barely hanging on as the blight creeps ever closer. The woke of course are in full denial.