As islander Ann Reis explained, “I had just been in Paris where I had seen and admired the Bridge of Locked Love, a bridge festooned with hundreds of locks.” So when she noticed a lock clamped on to the chain link fence on the Marion Street pedestrian overpass in Seattle, she was inspired to add a lock adorned with her kids’ initials. Fellow islander Jackie Fabbri started a Facebook group (Bridge of Love Seattle) and the two have been encouraging lock-leaving ever since. From heart-shaped to handpainted, the locks are multiplying. Isn’t it time you locked on?
