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...
His car and building models are done much better than I can do...
have some old fam 8mm video to pull frames from to show how young kids were armed in the middle 50's.....
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.