Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
What are those Terminator glasses some old people wear?
Matthew:
Who makes those funky looking Terminator-style shades that kind of make everybody look like Ah-nold Schwarzenegger, and is it a conspiracy or odd coincidence that only senior citizens seem to be wearing them? Do the shades actually do anything for the folks that wear them, besides blocking out those harmful UV rays?
-- Salvatore Filippone, San Diego
So you're bugged when you see gramps stylin' down avenue in those bad, bad shades. Hmmm. Better turn this one over to Grandma Alice. She'll set you straight.
"Thank you, Matthew. And as for you, young man, Mr. Filippone, wait til you get to be our age and you want to make a fashion statement. Think it's a coincidence that there's a Baby Gap but no Grandpa Gap? No Extremely Old Navy? Does Ferragamo make orthopedic shoes? No. We're just handed a muumuu and a copy of Modern Maturity and shoved into a corner with a bunch of cats and a bag of knitting and an afghan. Why does everybody think old people are crazy about fuzzy things?"
Uh, take it easy, Grandma. So what's with those glasses he asked about? We're running out of room here.
"If some granny wants to look like the Terminator, well, I say that beats Driving Miss Daisy.
The glasses, Grandma.
"If Mr. Filippone wants his own pair, he will have to have eye surgery-- probably cataract surgery, that's fairly common-- then get them from his doctor. Not that I wish it on him, you understand. The very dark, oversized lenses keep out much of the direct sunlight and also block reflections and indirect light that could creep in around the edges of the frames if you were wearing those stupid, squinty, slitty little shades. There are some fashion statements we old farts are smart enough to avoid."
Picky, Picky, Picky
Re: Our explanation two weeks ago of those huge, scary glasses oldsters wear that look like Terminator shades. Our pal Brent Millman's long and colorful career at Pacific Eyes & Ts has finally paid off. He feels we cheated you out of the real deal:
Those old folks glasses are called Solar Shields. They're available at chain drug stores for about $12.99. Among the features you mentioned, the main function is that they fit over the prescription glasses all old people should be required by law to wear while out in public. I worked at Pacific Eyes & Ts in Encinitas. The glasses Arnold wore in the first movie were Gargoyle "Legends," and in the second movie he wore Rayban "Balorama"s. Dirty Harry wore the Raybans also.
Here's something you might be interested in.
What are those Terminator glasses some old people wear?
What are those Terminator glasses some old people wear?
Matthew:
Who makes those funky looking Terminator-style shades that kind of make everybody look like Ah-nold Schwarzenegger, and is it a conspiracy or odd coincidence that only senior citizens seem to be wearing them? Do the shades actually do anything for the folks that wear them, besides blocking out those harmful UV rays?
-- Salvatore Filippone, San Diego
So you're bugged when you see gramps stylin' down avenue in those bad, bad shades. Hmmm. Better turn this one over to Grandma Alice. She'll set you straight.
"Thank you, Matthew. And as for you, young man, Mr. Filippone, wait til you get to be our age and you want to make a fashion statement. Think it's a coincidence that there's a Baby Gap but no Grandpa Gap? No Extremely Old Navy? Does Ferragamo make orthopedic shoes? No. We're just handed a muumuu and a copy of Modern Maturity and shoved into a corner with a bunch of cats and a bag of knitting and an afghan. Why does everybody think old people are crazy about fuzzy things?"
Uh, take it easy, Grandma. So what's with those glasses he asked about? We're running out of room here.
"If some granny wants to look like the Terminator, well, I say that beats Driving Miss Daisy.
The glasses, Grandma.
"If Mr. Filippone wants his own pair, he will have to have eye surgery-- probably cataract surgery, that's fairly common-- then get them from his doctor. Not that I wish it on him, you understand. The very dark, oversized lenses keep out much of the direct sunlight and also block reflections and indirect light that could creep in around the edges of the frames if you were wearing those stupid, squinty, slitty little shades. There are some fashion statements we old farts are smart enough to avoid."
Picky, Picky, Picky
Re: Our explanation two weeks ago of those huge, scary glasses oldsters wear that look like Terminator shades. Our pal Brent Millman's long and colorful career at Pacific Eyes & Ts has finally paid off. He feels we cheated you out of the real deal:
Those old folks glasses are called Solar Shields. They're available at chain drug stores for about $12.99. Among the features you mentioned, the main function is that they fit over the prescription glasses all old people should be required by law to wear while out in public. I worked at Pacific Eyes & Ts in Encinitas. The glasses Arnold wore in the first movie were Gargoyle "Legends," and in the second movie he wore Rayban "Balorama"s. Dirty Harry wore the Raybans also.
Comments