History Main / MobileKiosk

* DrSeuss's ''The Sneetches and Other Stories'' gives us Sylvester [=McMonkey=] [=McBean=] and his portable Star-On and Star-Off machines.

* ''{{Hoodwinked}}'' got the schnitzel truck.

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* ''{{Discworld}}'' has C.M.O.T. Dibbler, who uses a handcart when business is going well (when it isn't, he just has a tray round his neck). In ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', it's suggested that he might want to invest in an actual storefront, but he replies that in his business it pays to keep mobile.

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* HomeStarRunner: Every summer, Bubs drives around in a van selling... baloney sandwiches.

Sometimes TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday has a very good reason for disappearing and reappearing at will: it has a motor!

A Mobile Kiosk would be any device where the owner sells something with the additional benefit that when business dries up he can pick up and move. Perhaps a conman with a collapsible table, a bazaar merchant with his store on a cart, or a hoverskift selling fresh alien fish. See TravelCool for more odd vehicles such as {{Fruit Cart}}s.

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* The Vending skiff from ''TheFifthElement''.
* The opening scene of ''GuysAndDolls'' has a pitchman and his female accomplice whose pitch is a box with fixed legs.
* Doctor Terminus' "Landship" from ''PetesDragon''
* ''BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': everything in Portobello Road that isn't nailed down. As well as Professor Browne's nifty suitcase act.

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* Jean Merrill's children's book ''The Pushcart War''. Pushcart vendors vs. monster trucks!
* ''{{Discworld}}'' has C.M.O.T. Dibbler, who uses a handcart when business is going well (when it isn't, he just has a tray round his neck). In ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', it's suggested that he might want to invest in an actual storefront, but he replies that in his business it pays to keep mobile.

* Abie Glassman in ''TheGreatBrain''.

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* ''TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "One for the Angels". Lew Bookman has a mobile pitch: a suitcase with extensible legs. When he finishes a pitch, he collapses the legs back into the suitcase and moves on.

* ''Series/TinMan:'' Demilo's ungodly tacky whorehouse-on-wheels

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* The U.S. has trucks filled with various types of food and drink that go around to any place with groups of people (construction sites, office buildings, college campuses, etc.) and sell to the people there.

* There are companies out there that will wash your car and/or repair windshields on the spot (well in the parking lot anyway)
* [[BadHumorTruck Ice cream trucks]].
* Also old-time cigarette girls.

* Those Mexican ice cream men, who literally drag their store around behind them.

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* ''{{Shadowrun}}'': often has mobile medical care facilities and repair shops for the "don't ask questions" type.

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* In {{Oklahoma}}, Ali Hakim the peddler has one of these.

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* ''TheSimpsons'', when Marge started a pretzel business and drove around with the pretzels in her station wagon, her rivals had a falafel truck.
** In ''TheSimpsons'' various times when they go to "ethnic" neighborhoods, and when they flashed back to Homer & Marge when they lived in an apartment.
--->Chiiiipwich for sale! Chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin! Chiiipwich for sale!...

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* Aiden Subtract works out of one of these, hawking his inventions in the GalaxyRangers episode "Rainmaker"

Sometimes [[Main/{{Ptitlelfhe09gi}} The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]] has a very good reason for disappearing and reappearing at will: it has a motor!

** This practice is also becoming common in Britain, normally as a sideline run by a local cafe. More elaborate setups offering hotdogs, burgers etc cooked while you wait tend to be found in lay-bys, the parking lots of retail parks or dotted around pedestrianised shopping areas. They're also invariably found at markets or county fairs.

** Britain has a similar thing, except you'll only find them in laybys or at markets.
* Bookmobiles: kind of as they are essentially libraries.

* Most of the alleged doctors in the WildWest would travel by wagon from town to town selling a 'miracle elixir' said to cure whatever ailment they could come up with. These show up in Westerns from time to time.

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* ''{{Discworld}}'' has C.M.O.T. Dibbler.

In Speculative Fiction sometimes [[Main/{{Ptitlelfhe09gi}} The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]] has a very good reason for disappearing and reappearing at will: it has a motor!

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* The vendor in the film ''TopSecret!''.

* The U.S. has trucks filled with various types of food and drink that go around to any place with groups of people (construction sites, office buildings, etc.) and sell to the people there.
* Bookmobiles: kind of as they are essentially libraries
* there are companies out there that will wash your car and/or repair windshields on the spot (well in the parking lot anyway)

->Chiiiipwich for sale! Chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin! Chiiipwich for sale!...

* It may be hard to find, but there's a short story by LordDunsany, ''The Shop that Traded Evils''.

* It may be hard to find, but there's a short story by Lord Dunsany, ''The Shop that Traded Evils''.

* ''TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "One for the Angels". Lew Bookman has a mobile pitch: a suitcase with extendable legs. When he finishes a pitch, he collapses the legs back into the suitcase and moves on.
* In season 3 of ''TheWire'', Bubbles starts selling white t-shirts to the drug dealers and users around Baltimore from a shopping trolley. Later in the season and in season four he starts to expand his operation, offering cans of paint, pirated [=DVDs=] and other such assorted goods from his trolley.