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Love Locks: Who needs Paris? We've got Atwater.
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Dan Carino
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Jun 3, 2015
Love Locks: Who needs Paris? We've got Atwater.
Paris has removed the 700,000 padlocks of love from the Pont Des Arts. So what!? we've got the Footbridge of Love over the L.A. River.
A couple is seen on the Pont des Arts where padlocks are attached to the railing, on August 30, 2013 in Paris. Due to security reason authorities consider removing the 'Love locks' that have been attached to the Pont des Arts bridge since 2008 by thousand of lovers.
A couple is seen on Paris' Pont des Arts in 2013, before the city removed them this week because they were weighing down the bridge.
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PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images
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Paris has removed the 700,000 padlocks of love from the Pont Des Arts. So what!? we've got the Footbridge of Love over the L.A. River.

You've probably heard by now that the city of Paris has removed the padlocks that you and 699,999 other people - as a symbol of your undying love - attached to the railing of the Pont Des Arts bridge across the Seine.

The reason for their removal? The locks weighed a reported 45 tons, and while your heart can bear any weight for love, the bridge couldn't.

But who needs Paris? We have our own Pont Des Arts ... the footbridge that crosses the L.A. River South of Los Feliz Blvd.

Last October, Off-Ramp celebrated the 70th birthday of Friends of the Los Angeles River founder Lewis MacAdams with a tour of his favorite spots on the river, and that bridge - the only footbridge across the river - is one of them. 

(Image: John Rabe)