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Lindberg brings authentic brand names to the St. Charles area

Located in St Andrews’ shopping center, Jump Street clothing store sits hidden, like a diamond in the rough.

Jump Street is a new clothing and shoe boutique that recently opened in St. Charles in June 2007. Jump Street is full of authentic jeans, T-shirts, hats, skateboards, shoes, and limited edition items.

“We’re the type of store St. Charles needs,” 24-year-old Justin Lindberg said as he folds another limited edition T-shirt.

Lindberg is his own boss. At age 19, Lindberg started up his own vending machine business.

“I actually sold shoes off eBay until I raised enough money to start up The Shop,” Lindberg said.
Then after making enough money, at age 21, he started selling clothing.

“I decided I wanted to be a business man in high school,” Lindberg said. “I just saw that how you made all the money was by being your own boss.”
The Shop was first in business in October of 2005.

“For his age, his business is going great, and he’s doing pretty good,” friend Natalie Lindberg said.

The Shop is in the center of St. Louis, at Natural Bridge Rd and Highway 70. Directly across from the airport, seen from Highway 70.
Although Lindberg’s second shop, Jump Street, is new, business is going steady.

“We’re new so we still need to build up steady business by getting more clientele,” Lindberg said. “We’ve got time.”

Lindberg gets hold of his merchandise by going to a clothing convention in Las Vegas. There, he meets with representatives of clothing brands such as Ed Hardy, Greedy Genius, and Famous Stars & Straps.

“People come in saying I want the stuff no one else has, and we can give it to them,” 19-year-old employee Eric Kilbourne said.

This type of business brings in a number of unlikely customers.

“Our first customer was a 60-year-old woman buying Ed Hardy shirts for herself,” Lindberg said. “But we get a lot different kinds of people in here mostly high school and college kids. Every

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