Sam Foster

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Inventor of modern sunglasses and founder of Foster Grant

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UnknownGrits and Eggs Podcast · Episode 121 - Future Congresswoman Bri Woodson · 15:02 · 14 Feb
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Mike CarruthersSomething You Should Know · The Transformative Power of Wonder & How Money REALLY Works ... · 4:12 · May 2025
…Those ancient sunglasses had little to do with the sun, though. Chinese judges wore them to hide their facial expressions while they interrogated witnesses on trial. It was Sam Foster of Foster Grant fame who came up with the sunglasses we wear today. And in 1929, he started selling his sunglasses from a Woolworth's store on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N…
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