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Northshore October 2025
One night four years ago, Maria Tilkens called her son, Alexander Tilkens, with a question: “Would it be crazy to start a mobile bar?” It was the end of 2020, when people were going stir-crazy stuck in their houses, and Maria’s friend had just sent her a funny meme that said, “Adults need a champagne truck like kids have an ice cream truck.” “It was a lightbulb moment,” Maria says. “The pandemic had happened, we were just starting to come out of it, and people were desperate for parties.” Alexander told his mother that the idea wasn’t crazy at all. A few months later, Bubble Bar Boston was born, a mobile bar
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