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Foster Grant ten-cent sunglasses

Plastic-frame sunglasses sold by Foster Grant from 1929 at a Woolworth’s on the Atlantic City boardwalk.

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    Where the first pairs were sold.

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  1. 1929 Sam Foster launched Foster Grant ten-cent sunglasses
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  1. 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.
  2. 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®.
  3. Shades of Greatness: Foster Grant Sunglasses, Yankee Magazine, 31 May 2019. Scholarship & press
    Foster Grant pioneered them as a fashion item, selling its first pair in 1929 at a Woolworth’s on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
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