A sideshow (so-called in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a street takeover in the Los Angeles area[1][2]) is an informal and often illegal demonstration of automotive stunts now often held in vacant lots, and public intersections, originally seen in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, United States. Sideshows first appeared in Oakland, California in the 1980s as informal social gatherings of Bay Area youth.[3]
In the present day, sideshows, in addition to being inherently illegal, often involve crime and or shootings.