I disagree about street scenes being dead. First let me clarify if you are speaking of picking up gay men that is pointless because gay men dont have to live in the shadows and there are app and sites.
However for me street scenes is about picking up the type of men that you wont rub shoulders with often in your day to day. I.e. day laborers, military, young college students,exotic foreigners(eastern european,middle eastern,african).
There arecsome gay men who just cant do the run of the mill vanilla encounter and need to seduce certain types of men and give their ego a win. If you were to hear these men stories it would sound like fan fiction but now n then you will see their handy work of seduction on xtube or pornhub.