Street Photography: My Bagel Place Opted for the Small Font, LA, 2025

If the font on the Halloween decorations was any larger I probably would not have stopped for bagels. Whose idea was it anyway to adorn a Grade A-inspected food shop with biohazard tape? I guess the small printing saved the day.

S a Bagel?

There were many places to get good bagels in New York City. Where my wife and I lived, it wasn’t a long walk to Ess-a-Bagel. In Yiddish, ‘essen’ means ‘eat’. Therefore ‘Ess a bagel’ means ‘Eat a bagel’. What could be simpler? The bagels were enormous there. So enormous in fact, that a diet expert […]