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02/20/2026
✨ 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!
Last week, we went to meet a reptile from the warm climates, the gecko! 🦎
Now, we go to the savanna to meet a flightless bird, the ostrich! 🪽
If you guessed a ostrich last week, you're on point! Here’s the mind-blowing fact:
🤓 DID YOU KNOW?
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain?
**🔮 Next week’s animal hint:
This animal is the United States bird and emblem. 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!
02/16/2026
Happy Presidents Day!
From our team at Dawson's Vision Center
02/13/2026
✨ 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!
Last week, we went to meet a "fuzzy" insect that is all over, the moth! 🦋
Now join us in the warm climates as we meet, the gecko! 🦎
If you guessed a gecko last week, you're on point! Here’s the mind-blowing fact:
🤓 DID YOU KNOW?
Some geckos can see colors around 350 times better than a human, even in dim lighting?
**🔮 Next week’s animal hint:
This animal has a myth about them sticking it's head in the sand. 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!
02/11/2026
We have a winner in our Valentines giveaway, Stephanie Murphy. We hope you enjoy your dinner, chocolates and flowers and thank you for participating.
02/06/2026
✨ 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!
Last week, we got to meet the world's biggest cephalopod, the colossal squid! 🦑
Now join us on land as we meet this "fuzzy" insect, the moth! 🦋
If you guessed a moth last week, you're on point! Here’s the mind-blowing fact:
🤓 DID YOU KNOW?
A moth's eyes are covered with a water-repellant anti-reflective coating?
**🔮 Next week’s animal hint:
This animal can shed their tails to escape predators, which will regenerate over 30–40 days, though the new tail may look different. 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!
02/04/2026
♥️ VALENTINE’S GIVEAWAY ♥️
Love is in the air! 🥰 To celebrate the month of love, Dawson’s Vision Center is giving ONE lucky winner an amazing Valentine’s prize!
🎁 Prize Includes:
• A gift card to Effina’s
• Beautiful flowers
• Sweet Valentine’s candy
✨ How to Enter:
1️⃣ Follow Dawson’s Vision Center on Instagram and/or Facebook
2️⃣ Like AND share this post to your story
3️⃣ Comment below and tag 2 friends
That’s it! 🙌
👀 Keep an eye on our page—we’ll be announcing the winner on February 11th!
Good luck and Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘
02/02/2026
01/30/2026
01/30/2026
✨ 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!
Last week, we got to meet one of the world's farm animals, the goat! 🐐
Now we join us in the ocean as we meet the biggest cephalopod, the colossal squid! 🦑
If you guessed a colossal squid last week, you're on point! Here’s the mind-blowing fact:
🤓 DID YOU KNOW?
The largest eye on the plant belongs to the colossal squid? Their eye measure around 27cm across! (Around 10.6299in!)
**🔮 Next week’s animal hint:
This creature as an adult has brilliant pink and bright yellow markings, and is nocturnal! 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!
01/23/2026
✨ 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!
Last week, we got to meet one of the best "starter" pets in the United States, the hamster! 🐹
Now we join us on the farm as we meet, the goat! 🐐
If you guessed a goat last week, you're on point! Here’s the mind-blowing fact:
🤓 DID YOU KNOW?
Goats have rectangular pupils to give them a wide field of vision? (Around 320-340 degrees!)
**🔮 Next week’s animal hint:
This animal massive, is a deep-sea cephalopod, the largest invertebrate by mass, related to but distinct from the giant squid? 👀
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!
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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.
At Dawson’s Vision Center you will always deal directly with the owners, not someone different every time you go in like in the big chain stores. With over 60 years of combined experience in the optical field, the Dawson’s know the value of being honest and straight-forward with their customers and will always stand behind their product. The staff always gives the personal attention and performs the quality of workmanship that customers deserve and demand. These are the standards that Rick and Larry learned from their dad and these same standards keep them at the top of the optical industry.
