I personally would like to send a heart-felt “Thank You” to the city for doing this and think that it was long over due.

Something about these lane markers that makes them unique is that there is no actual lane. It is also not any type of boundary to be avoided by cars and it would be impossible to avoid driving over them.  Rather it is a reminder of what was true all along: that bikes have had the right to be in this space with cars and that we should all endeavor to make room for and be very aware of  each other.

Now if we could only convince the hipsters to start wearing helmets and obeying traffic laws.

Wrapped in what appears to be sheets of Jamaican phone-book pages glued together at the edges and cut out centers, some of these records have labels and some don’t. The blank white lables are sometimes the coolest songs and it is a real sensory experience to watch it spin around under the needle and reveal what lives down in those tiny grooves. I wanted to get these into MP3 form and share with ya’ll.

These are the old original 45’s recorded by the legends of Rock Steady and Reggae. ENJOY.

This playlist is simply random – it’s just how I pulled them from the box.
(cover photo: Phyllis Dilion)

1. I Roy – Shock Attack
2. Laurel Aitken – Life
3. Carl Dawkins – Satisfaction
4. Heptones – Why did you leave me?
5. Phyllis Dilion – Stay Away
6. Harry J Allstars – No More Heartaches (b side)
7. Harry J Allstars – No More Heartaches
8. The Silvertones – Smile
9. The Wailers – Rude Boy
10. The Skatalites – trip to mars (b side unknown)
11. The Silvertones – True Confessions
12. Eythiopians – You Are The One
13. (unknown) – instrumental
14. Eythiopians – Train to Skaville

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