Back in 2010, Stacey Jischke-Steffe was selling women's clothing and accessories at various Los Angeles street markets when she spotted the crowds around the food trucks and thought, “Why not put a store on wheels?” A few months later, she and her business partner Jeanine Romo bought a vintage 1974 Grummond Olson step van and christened it Le Fashion Truck.
Today, Jischke-Steffe and Romo not only sell their LA-designed clothes, bags and jewelry from the back of the van, but they're the co-founders of the American Mobile Retail Association, whose 107 members represent only a fraction of the estimated 1,000 non-food truck-based businesses operating across the United States. Here are some of the coolest — and strangest — mobile business ideas.
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