Dawson's Vision Center

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12/30/2025
✨ Hello everyone, and welcome back to FUN FACT FRIDAY! ✨ Every Friday between 12:00–1:30 PM (CST), we are sharing one AM...
12/26/2025

✨ Hello everyone, and welcome back to FUN FACT FRIDAY! ✨

Every Friday between 12:00–1:30 PM (CST), we are sharing one AMAZING eye-related fun fact featuring an animal of the week!

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! 🎄 As we get into the New Year, we’re excited to continue bringing you more fun facts, EYE-opening knowledge, and maybe even a few surprises along the way! 🥳

Last week, we walked in the forest and met a feathered friend — the owl! 🦉
Now we fly away to some of the coldest places on the earth as we get to know... the polar bear! 🐻‍❄️

If you guessed a polar bear last week, you're on point! Here’s the mind-blowing fact:

🤓 DID YOU KNOW?

Polar bears have a third eyelid that helps filter UV? They have their own built-in sunglasses!

**🔮 Next week’s animal hint: This playful marine mammal is known for its intelligence and acrobatics, often seen leaping through the waves or riding along boat wakes. Can you guess who it is? 👀

Thanks for tuning in to this week’s Fun Fact Friday! 🐻‍❄️ We hope you learned something new today. Don’t forget to join us next week for another eye-opening fact! 👀 Until then, keep your eyes on the prize! ✨

Have a guess for next week’s animal? Drop it in the comments!

Dawson's Vision Center is wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will be closing for Christmas...
12/24/2025

Dawson's Vision Center is wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will be closing for Christmas from December 24th at 12:00 noon through Friday December 26th. We will reopen on Monday December 29th.

Have a family member or friend that you don't know what to give them for Christmas? Give them the gift of sight with a g...
12/24/2025

Have a family member or friend that you don't know what to give them for Christmas? Give them the gift of sight with a gift certificate from Dawson's Vision Center. You can use it on prescription or nonprescription glasses and sunglasses. Come by today for yours

The staff at Dawson's Vision Center and Dr. Shonda Wood wish you a very Merry Christmas. Our office hours for the Christ...
12/24/2025

The staff at Dawson's Vision Center and Dr. Shonda Wood wish you a very Merry Christmas. Our office hours for the Christmas Holiday are as follows: we will close at noon on Wednesday December 24th and be closed through December 28th. We will reopen on Monday December 29th.

12/23/2025

The staff at Dawson's Vision Center wish you a Very Merry Christmas. Our holiday hours are as follows: we will be closing from Wednesday December 24th at 12:00 through Friday December 26th. We will reopen on Monday December 29th.

Address

600 Leighton Avenue
Anniston, AL
36207

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm
Friday 8am - 12pm
1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+12562388718

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About Dawson’s Vision Center

Pinson Dawson started in the optical business back in the late 1940’s with Bausch & Lomb. He began a tradition of hard work and honesty in the Anniston area in 1952 under the business name of J.A. Weiss & Sons in a building located at 9th and Wilmer. Pinson remained at that location doing wholesale lab work for doctors throughout the state of Alabama. Rick Dawson started working part time for Pinson during the summers delivering completed jobs to the local doctors. He made these deliveries twice a day by walking or riding a bicycle. Pinson managed the wholesale lab in the Anniston area for Mr. Weiss until 1974.

In 1975, Mr. Dawson started his own wholesale optical lab named Pinson A. Dawson Co. with the help of his two sons, Rick and Larry Dawson. He incorporated several years later and continued to do lab work for doctors around the state of Alabama. Rick and Larry continued to work summers with their dad. Rick joined his dad full time in 1978, leaving Kockums Industry where he worked in the engineering department. Larry graduated from Auburn University in 1981 with a degree in business administration and started working with his dad full time after graduation.

Then in January of 1985, the Dawson’s decided to open a retail store and combine it with the wholesale operation in the Everett Plaza on Quintard Avenue and the name became Dawson’s Vision Center. Merging the wholesale and retail segments of a privately owned optical business was a new concept at this time but it allowed the Dawson’s to sell the products and then manufacture the lenses in their own in house laboratory. It was and is the only full service vision center with a complete lab and a full time doctor in this area. Having an in house lab allows us to offer most people their prescriptions in the same day, and many times in 3 to 4 hours.