The Love River, flowing through the heart of the city, was full of fish as recently as the 1950s. Its name was borrowed from that of a boat rental company on its banks in the Japanese occupation era-telling of the traffic it once saw.
愛河，這一條穿過高雄市精華地段的生命之河，在民國四十年代左右，也曾經是一條看得到游魚的河流，愛河的名字，其實就是來自日據時代愛河邊上一家船渡公司的名字，可知當時人們經常在上面划船。