All I had to do was interview Mike Hotaling and he made me a free sandwich. A big one. Biggest one I’ve ever seen. “It’s…
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The first time I interviewed Griselda Rocha in Wimauma, FL, she was wearing a tee-shirt that read: “Fear is for Others.”
Continue reading Rocha Family Runs Four Successful Small Businesses
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Vietnamese-American bodega owner Von Nguyen has experienced extraordinary, even unimaginable events in his life. He told me three of them.
Continue reading The Man of Many Stories
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David Bulit’s Abandonedfl.com is, to paraphrase Diane Arbus, full of “things which nobody would see unless he photographed them.”
Continue reading Abandonedfl.com–More than a Trip Down Memory Lane
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Several decades ago I was a penniless young man living in a third floor flat in Peabody, Massachusetts. Believing I could affect change and meet…
Continue reading Yellow, the Color of Luck
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The daughter of a bodega owner makes a decision to abandon her college plans to help at the store.
Continue reading College or Bodega?
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The facade of the A & I Convenience Store is the most bizarre I’ve encountered while doing The Bodega Project.
Continue reading Prize for the Most Bizarre Facade
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Manuel Mariñez had a formula to get into the bodega business at the young age of 22. It meant making some sacrifices, but he was sure it would work. He was right.
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It doesn’t look like it belongs. Mama’s Ti Marche bodega sits just outside of Boston’s busy Mattapan Square. But from its quaint sign outside to…
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If anyone can be said to have bodegas in his blood, it’s Alexandro Tejeda of Las Americas Market in Dorchester. He’s owned the store since…
Continue reading The Owner Who Wants No Record of His Accomplishments
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