Growing up in Brooklyn, "bodega" meant a Puerto Rican grocery store, ubiquitous in Williamsburgh before the hipsters moved in. I've heard some
Peruvian friends use it to describe some of the informal wine bars that serve homemade Pisco. In Baja I've seen bodega used to describe sheds and
closets. Is the latter the most common usage in Mexico?bajacalifornication - 8-11-2014 at 09:07 AM
In Mexico it means a wherehouse.willardguy - 8-11-2014 at 09:10 AM
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In Mexico it means a wherehouse.
an old record store? bajabuddha - 8-11-2014 at 09:15 AM
A Norte Americana friend calls her small attached workshop room a 'bodega' in Baja. Up north we've always called that kind of room a 'utility' or
'mud-room'. I'd also heard the term used for a small store or shop in Caribbean genre.bajacalifornication - 8-11-2014 at 09:15 AM
Not exactly. A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored before their export or distribution for sale.willardguy - 8-11-2014 at 09:38 AM
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Originally posted by bajacalifornication
In Mexico it means a wherehouse.
an old record store?
must have just been a socal thing! bajabuddha - 8-11-2014 at 09:41 AM
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Originally posted by willardguy
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Originally posted by bajacalifornication
In Mexico it means a wherehouse.
an old record store?
must have just been a socal thing!
Wherehouse ?...... THERE HOUSE. (inspired by Young Frankenstein)
[Edited on 8-11-2014 by bajabuddha]willardguy - 8-11-2014 at 09:46 AM
what knockers!dtutko1 - 8-11-2014 at 02:39 PM
I use bodega to describe my residence, because it was designed to store my possessions including car. We do have a bathroom and shower, clothes
washer, and Murphy bed, but it is not a casa or casita.DENNIS - 8-11-2014 at 03:05 PM
Storage facility, such as mini-storage is sometimes called a bodega, or almacen.pauldavidmena - 8-11-2014 at 03:09 PM
Interesting. A few months back I stayed at a casita in San Pedrito, and asked where the WiFi signal was strongest. "cerca de la bodega" was the
answer, at which point I wondered how far away the grocery store was. vandenberg - 8-11-2014 at 03:19 PM
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In Mexico it means a wherehouse.
Wherehouse, warehouse or hoarhouse. Take your pick.bajabuddha - 8-11-2014 at 03:43 PM
RESULTS JUST IN:
D) all of the abovepauldavidmena - 8-11-2014 at 03:54 PM
Here's what a bodega was called in my neighborhood when I was a kid.
David K - 8-11-2014 at 06:25 PM
Bodega Bay is where Alfred Hitchc-ck filmed The Birds!bajaric - 3-9-2015 at 02:53 PM
The Birds? Wow I did not know that.
Bodega Bay was visited by Drake
I have always translated Bodega as a warehouse or general goods store
Drake was buried at sea in a lead coffin (never found) at Puertobello, Panama. Not to hijack the thread, but that meant he must have sailed up the
entire coast of Baja upwind in a wooden ship that had been on the ocean for a period of several years, without charts, then make his way back to
Panama before sacking the Spanish mule train that carried more than five thousand silver bars, only to die of tropical fever off the coast of Panama.
brewer - 3-13-2015 at 06:21 PM
What's the word for garage in Baja?monoloco - 3-13-2015 at 06:22 PM
In Honduras, a little corner store is known as a pulperia. So many different words for the same thing in different Spanish speaking countries. Whale-ista - 3-13-2015 at 07:28 PM
'Bodegas de Santo Tomas" is a pretty historic use of the term, from 1700s or so- that's when the winery was established, not sure how soon afterwards
that name was applied to their warehouse...
