This is a scene out of 1950s California if ever there was one. The greaser on the sidewalk is about to saunter past a 1956 salmon and gray Hudson sedan and a green and white 1954 Plymouth. This photo was taken on Main Street in Huntington Beach in December 1957, which makes me wonder what the greaser was planning on getting his mother for Christmas, and did she like it?

Roughly the same view in April 2019: