No skateboarding in the aisles, though: Some...

No skateboarding in the aisles, though: Some teen-agers in Boyle Heights were asked to study a city library branch that caters to youngsters.

“They were asked, essentially, ‘What would make kids come in here?’ ” said library spokesman David Haut. “Their answer was that they wanted a jukebox playing while they did their homework.”

Well, that’s what the library gets for asking.

But fair’s fair. So the city found a donor and the library jukebox will be dedicated April 22 at the Malabar branch on Wabash Avenue--we hope to the strains of the Beach Boys’ “Be True to Your School.”

But surely the job must have some negative points: Byron Paul can’t figure how anyone in the profession could resist this ad in the Hollywood Reporter: “Casting assistant: Long hours/stressful/low pay/part time/smoke environment. . . .”

Nothing but bicycle lanes: When we wrote that the proposed West L.A. Veloway would be the “nation’s first bicycle freeway,” we really misspoke.

As Marni Anderson, Ralph Shaffer and R.E. Mucko wrote, the Pasadena Cycleway, a 1.4-mile, wooden bikeway was constructed between the Green Street and Raymond hotels in Pasadena in 1899.

The Pasadena News hailed the idea of “producing roads and paths for the great and growing army of cyclists.”

The cycleway opened on Jan. 1, 1900, with one newspaper reporting: “A Mr. Bedell and a party of New Yorkers claimed the first ride. Over 600 people rode over the course.”

Promoter Horace Dobbins planned to extend the route to the Plaza in Los Angeles. But he didn’t count on a great and growing army of motorists. Business soon declined and the project was abandoned. It wasn’t forgotten, though.

The cycleway’s proposed route was later adopted by the builders of the Pasadena Freeway.

Go West, Angeleno: A marquee on the boarded-up Jackson Coffee Shop in the City of Commerce says: “Here Today and Gone to Maui. So Long and Thanks.”

First question: Where’s City Hall?Retired newsman David Soibelman, now 90, is waiting for the answer to a question he posed 40 years ago in an editorial for the original L.A. Daily News. Applicants for most city jobs, he pointed out, “are put through rigorous written and oral examinations.” Why not City Council and mayoral candidates?

And after Tom Houston’s abortive underwater press conference Wednesday, we might recommend that scuba-diving be a compulsory subject, too.

Notify Geraldo, too: A Hollywood man, who asks that he be identified only as Bob, picked up a prescription for some new medicine and noticed that the instructions said, in part: “Avoid overheating and excessive sweating. Talk to your doctor about salt in your diet. If you become pregnant, discontinue and notify doctor.”

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One of the products on display at America’s Family Pet Show at the County Fairgrounds April 23-25 is called Yesterday’s News Cat Litter. “Recommended by vets for the special needs of de-clawed cats,” says a press release, it’s “made from recycled newspaper.” Who said Only in L.A. serves no purpose?