Person
Sam Foster
Austrian-born manufacturer in Leominster, Massachusetts, who founded the company that became Foster Grant.
Connections 3
founded
- Foster Grant 1919 Scholarship & press 1
launched
- Foster Grant ten-cent sunglasses 1929 Scholarship & press 23
involved in
- First Foster Grant sunglasses sold on the Atlantic City boardwalk (1929) seller Self-published 3
Timeline 2 dates
- 1919 Sam Foster founded Foster Grant
- 1929 Sam Foster launched Foster Grant ten-cent sunglasses
Proof 3 sources
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Shades of Greatness: Foster Grant Sunglasses, Yankee Magazine, 31 May 2019.
Scholarship & press
Striking out on his own, he set up shop in an abandoned laundry building in town, and the Foster Manufacturing Company was born.
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Foster Grant sunglasses are in the spotlight again, thanks to Elvis, The Boston Globe, 29 Jul 2022.
Scholarship & press
But inside a department store called Woolworth’s — right on the iconic boardwalk in Atlantic City — Foster Grant started selling their new item: darkened lenses meant to block the sun from your eyes, held in place by clunky, yet fashionable frames.
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About us, Foster Grant.
Self-published
In 1929, Sam Foster sold his first pair of sunglasses on the Atlantic City boardwalk, and launched not just a company but a nationwide demand for The Original American Sunglass Brand®.
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