The Bagel Grove

In 1988, Utica had to rely on a once-a-week truck that drove up from New York City for authentic bagels.  A dissatisfied electrical engineer and his family would soon change all that with the opening of Utica’s first authentic bagelry in September of 1988… On frequent business trips to Los Angeles, a jet-lagged Ed Grove would often wake up at 3:30 AM, his sleep schedule still on East-Coast time.These were the pre-laptop computer, pre-internet days, and the morning paper wasn’t even out yet.  The TV options at 3:30 AM were obviously paltry.  He would lie awake in his hotel room, contemplating his career and family, and otherwise twiddling his thumbs with little to do.