March 10, 1910: A speeding streetcar takes a curve too fast at 7th and Alvarado, jumps the tracks and goes tearing into what’s now MacArthur Park. If it hadn’t run into a telegraph pole and a pepper tree, it might have ended up in the lake, The Times says.

And on the jump, Pasadena police raid a bucket shop,  stock exchanges that were banned because they traded on margin. The Times says that such operations had been driven out of Los Angeles with raids in 1908.