[SamAdams76]

Some of those pics have to be real or at least partially real (those with vegetation in the background).

I think that's the whole point. He constructs models of old cars and storefronts and photoshops them into actual current-day pictures of the town. The result makes it look like he stepped into a time machine with a modern camera and went back to around 1952.

Imagine if you could go back to 1952 as a 20 year old, knowing what you know now...

[Paladin2]

I see that now. I've done similar with a model of an old Jackson Hole Tram car to show my wife what it ( a 90% version) would look like in the back yard as a garden shed.

His car and building models are done much better than I can do...

[Paladin2]

"Imagine if you could go back to 1952 as a 20 year old, knowing what you know now... "

have some old fam 8mm video to pull frames from to show how young kids were armed in the middle 50's.....

[IYAS9YAS]

He constructs models of old cars and storefronts and photoshops them into actual current-day pictures of the town.

Sort of. He simply sets his model sets on a table in front of real scenery for the background, and gets the perspective just right. At the link, there are some pics of the up-close shots, then an away shot that shows the table with the models sitting in front of the real-life backgrounds. I did a few like that when I was a kid. My dad built a 1/16th scale AC Cobra that I used for the car. They weren't great, but they were often mistaken for the real thing at a glance.