I don't think Speilberg's set designers and art directors could create a period location as magical as this. However idealized, the pictures leave you with a right and good feeling.

reveries.com says this about Elgin Park:

Elgin Park, exists only on Flickr -- and in the mind of Michael Paul Smith, reports Jim Koscs in the New York Times (3/14/10). Elgin Park, in reality, "is an imaginary ... steel-mill town where the calendar is frozen at 1964." Michael created Elgin Park by combining his love of "1/24-scale diecast" cars and trucks with "his skills at architectural model-making and photography, along with his love for detail." He has built about a dozen scale models of circa 1964 houses and buildings, and accessorized them with his collection of some 300 die-cast cars and trucks.

Michael then photographs his models outdoors, using mother earth as his backdrop and father sky for lighting. The result is so stunning that his creations attract upwards of 750,000 pageviews per day, totaling some 20 million views on Flickr since January (images). The result is so good that some accuse Michael of using Photoshop, but he says he's used Photoshop only to make some of the images look older. He finds his outdoor sets in and around his hometown of Winchester, Mass., but says his inspiration is actually his boyhood home of Sewickley, Pa., "a real steel-mill town a few miles north of Pittsburgh."

All I say is, unbelievable work.