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What it's like to have one bad eye.Evelyn is a 9 yr old young lady from Bloomington Wisconsin. She has glaucoma in just ...
04/24/2026

What it's like to have one bad eye.

Evelyn is a 9 yr old young lady from Bloomington Wisconsin. She has glaucoma in just her left eye, and is very near sighted in that eye, while her prescription for her right eye is not unusual or strong.

I shared her sunglasses with you last week. These are goggles to protect her eyes while playing soccer, and whatever else a 9yr old can get into!

I am proud to be able to help her live her life like any other kid, and make it affordable for her parents to be able to provide her with the eyewear she needs to do that. I have a feeling I will be seeing Evelyn often as she gets older.

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As you can see in the photo looking through her lenses, the lens for her near sighted eye makes images smaller, while her right eye does not. Her brain has to take 2 different sized images, and make them into one. That can be very difficult for people to do, but Evelyn does it like a champ. Her left lens is what we call a myodisc, in that just a small portion of the lens contains her Rx, the outer area is just there to fill in the rest of the frame. If the entire lens had her Rx, it would be crazy thick....and that's not cool.

This morning I whipped up some sunglasses for Evelyn. She is a 9yr old from Bloomington Wisconsin that has a big imbalan...
04/18/2026

This morning I whipped up some sunglasses for Evelyn. She is a 9yr old from Bloomington Wisconsin that has a big imbalance in the prescription for her eyes.

Sports glasses for soccer are coming next week, look for those, they're gonna be fun!

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FYI these lenses are not the color they photograph, they are gray.

I want to share with you the glasses I gave away. Julie Jackson was the winner of a pair of glasses of her choice.She pi...
03/13/2026

I want to share with you the glasses I gave away. Julie Jackson was the winner of a pair of glasses of her choice.

She picked this fun Fysh frame, and we did digital progressives with anti-reflective coating.

Julie has a nice little eyewear collection going on, so she also updated her other glasses at the same time.

Congratulations again to Julie, and pay attention for future fun....like more free eyewear.

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Yesterday I had a gentleman bring in his Rayban for some work.He explained to me that he bought them in 1975 or so. He w...
02/25/2026

Yesterday I had a gentleman bring in his Rayban for some work.

He explained to me that he bought them in 1975 or so. He wore them until he needed to wear prescription glasses. They then ended up in a drawer for a few decades.

While he was wearing them years ago, he wore the heck out of them, and they needed some attention. I removed the old cracked temple tips (the parts behind your ear), and nose pads. I threw the rest of sunglass in the ultrasonic cleaner.

After the frame was clean, I cleaned the lenses with some acetone, then installed new temple tips and nose pads. Then all screws were snugged up, and the frame was straightened..

He had concerns about keeping them all original, which I helped him work through. He was elated with the results once he saw how good they looked again.

His concern for originality came from him thinking about selling them, but I put a little bug in his ear about putting his prescription in them, and enjoying them himself. I assured him I could make them into whatever he wants them to be, from clear to suns with his Rx.

The lenses in them are Ambermatic, which are glass lenses that are yellow, but turn dark in direct sunlight.

I will let you know if he comes back to have his prescription installed.

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02/20/2026

A 50 second tour of Dubuque's largest sunglass selection...always 25% off MSRP.

This weekend I learned of the passing of a good customer, Lon. Both Lon and his wife Kay have been customer for years. I...
02/10/2026

This weekend I learned of the passing of a good customer, Lon. Both Lon and his wife Kay have been customer for years. In her slightly younger days, Kay made homemade Caramels, and always brought me a baggie full of them.

Lon and Kay were one of those odd couples, she is a TALKER, he is not so much. They almost always came in together, but he would take care of his business, and want to move on, but Kay liked to talk. He would excuse himself, and say he was going to wait in the car. He often ended up waiting for 15 minutes while Kay talked.

Because of the plants in my office, a few years ago Lon offered me a seed for a palm tree that he had in a blue pill bottle for animals. His sister had given it to him, he gave it to me.

I planted it, but it took forever to grow, it first looked like a blade of grass, then a w**d, so I wasn't even sure if it was the palm growing, but when he came in, I kept Lon updated as it grew. I am going to re-pot it this week.

Luckily Lon's sister came to town to visit last August or September, and he made a point of bringing her in to see the palm tree. He had told me he was going to bring her to see it, and he did.

RIP Lon.

https://dubuquetoday.com/obits/lonnie-b-eberhart/

For anyone who has met Cooper, but might not have met Otis and Rufus when they worked here.
02/03/2026

For anyone who has met Cooper, but might not have met Otis and Rufus when they worked here.

Neil is an outdoors kinda guy. Last year I made up some glacier glasses for him to use when he goes mountain climbing. T...
01/14/2026

Neil is an outdoors kinda guy. Last year I made up some glacier glasses for him to use when he goes mountain climbing.

This week he decided it was time for some new snazzy everyday sunglasses. We got him in a nice Revo frame. It's very beefy, but just looks like nice shades.

Of course we did polarized lenses so Neil can see without blinding glare.

I have a huge....the hugest selection of sunglasses, whether you're climbing a mountain, or climbing in your car, I have the right frame for you.

And I'm gonna knock 25% off just for you.

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We Have A Winner! Last month I announced that I was giving away another pair of eyeglasses, and we have a winner! I had ...
01/05/2026

We Have A Winner!

Last month I announced that I was giving away another pair of eyeglasses, and we have a winner!

I had one person that signed up in person, and online. Guess what? Her doubling her odds paid off, she won.

Congratulations to Julie Jackson! She has an eye exam scheduled for the end of January, so I should have pics of her prize pair for you soon.

I want to thank everyone who took time to sign up, and I wish you luck for next time.

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Cal was sent to me by Fuerste Optical. Why would they do that? Like many other Opticals, they no longer sell glass lense...
12/23/2025

Cal was sent to me by Fuerste Optical. Why would they do that? Like many other Opticals, they no longer sell glass lenses. Cal wears glass lenses. Since I am the guy that specializes in the tough jobs, and still do glass lenses, Fuerste's now refers all glass jobs to me.

Cal has a few features on his new glasses:

Progressive lenses. ✓
Glass lenses. ✓
Photochromic lenses. ✓
Prism. ✓
Clip on sunglasses. ✓

Cal needs to read stuff, so we did progressives, he also has a problem with double vision, prism fixes that. He also needs the most scratch resistant lenses available, so we did glass. Cal dislikes bright light, so he has Photogray lenses that darken in the sunlight. On top of the Photogray lenses, we did a frame that has polarized clip on suns, for those extremely bright days.

Maybe you don't want or need some of that stuff? It's ok, I do the simple jobs too.

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Today I made up some glasses for Rich. He is not quite as visually challenged as Chad, whose glasses I shared last week,...
12/15/2025

Today I made up some glasses for Rich.

He is not quite as visually challenged as Chad, whose glasses I shared last week, but I still put Rich in the thinnest lenses on the market. We also applied anti reflective coating so Rich looks and sees better.

We did a frame that has a magnetic clip on sunglasses, so Rich got more bang for his buck, since these will double as prescription sunglasses too.

Don't be jealous of Rich, just stop in, and i will hook you up with cool glasses too.

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These are a replacement pair of glasses for Chad....he lost the last pair in the ocean on vacation. Luckily Chad usually...
12/12/2025

These are a replacement pair of glasses for Chad....he lost the last pair in the ocean on vacation.

Luckily Chad usually has at least 3 pair, since he is legally blind without glasses.

The frame is the exact same model he lost, the lenses are the thinnest lenses available, with a hydrophobic anti reflective coating

I live for challenges like Chad's prescription presents...your lenses would be easy peezy.

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