pauldavidmena
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bodega
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?
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bajacalifornication
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In Mexico it means a wherehouse.
Todo por servir se acaba. Y acaba por no servir.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajacalifornication
In Mexico it means a wherehouse. |
an old record store? 
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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.
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bajacalifornication
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Not exactly. A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored before their export or distribution for sale.
Todo por servir se acaba. Y acaba por no servir.
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajacalifornication
In Mexico it means a wherehouse. |
an old record store? |
must have just been a socal thing! 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | 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]
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willardguy
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what knockers!
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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.
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Storage facility, such as mini-storage is sometimes called a bodega, or almacen.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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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. 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajacalifornication
In Mexico it means a wherehouse. |
Wherehouse, warehouse or hoarhouse. Take your pick.
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RESULTS JUST IN:
D) all of the above
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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pauldavidmena
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Here's what a bodega was called in my neighborhood when I was a kid.
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Bodega Bay is where Alfred Hitchc-ck filmed The Birds!
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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.
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What's the word for garage in Baja?
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Cochera.
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In Honduras, a little corner store is known as a pulperia. So many different words for the same thing in different Spanish speaking countries.
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'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...
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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