Talk:Love padlocks

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Such locks exist in many places, I suspect. I've seen them at Huang Shan, for instance. --Fang Aili talk 19:46, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, didn't the reality game show The Amazing Race go to two different areas, one in Europe, one in China that had these?--293.xx.xxx.xx 22:09, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

      • I think I saw something similar on the Great Wall too. 68.197.164.179 22:52, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Personally I've seen them at Two Lover's Point on Guam. Mostly Japanese tourists have left them there. I have a picture somewhere at home of it. --Timepilot 23:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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When I was in Pecs I was told that the tradition was started not by lovers but by students who would put their school-locker padlock on the railings on the day they left school. Adrian

I'll ask the other Hungarians about this, but school lockers aren't very common in Hungary. – Alensha talk 21:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

That's right, lockers are really not typical, usually keys are used in scools. What is probably true in the story is that students started the whole thing (there are several secondary schools and student hostels in the close neighbourhood). I guess, it's nothing but impossible to find out exactly how and why the first lock(s) got there. They are love padlocks, that's what we know :-) --Korovioff 23:13, 9 July 2007 (UTC)