Sideshows are illegal car demonstrations that originated in the Bay Area, but due to their danger, law enforcement agencies ...

Q: What is a sideshow? Sideshows are informal ... the location provided jobs for working class people. But as East Oakland integrated in the late 1960s, the predominantly white community in ...

OAKLAND — Illegal sideshow activity throughout the city Sunday ... were at several locations from West Oakland to East Oakland between 1:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. attracting between dozens and hundreds ...

According to San Jose Deputy Police Chief Brandon Sanchez, the term “sideshow” was a spin-off ... jobs for working class people. But as East Oakland integrated in the late 1960s, the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Dramatic video of an Oakland sideshow shows a car fully engulfed in flames. Caught on camera was a white BMW on fire early Sunday following a sideshow. It wasn't immediately made ...

were at several locations from West Oakland to East Oakland between 1:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. attracting between dozens and hundreds of participants and observers, police said. On Sunday morning, in the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Dramatic video of an Oakland sideshow shows a car fully engulfed in flames. Caught on camera was a white BMW on fire early Sunday following a sideshow. It wasn't immediately made ...

And she said she was not surprised that someone set a white BMW sedan on fire as the police were breaking up the sideshow. "It makes me feel like getting the hell out of Oakland," said Harper.