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Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .
Bausch & Lomb (since 2010 stylized as Bausch + Lomb [2]) is an American-Canadian eye health products company based in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of contact lenses, [3] lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products. [4] [5] The company was founded in Rochester ...
Throughout the 1960s, six manufacturers dominated the browline market: Shuron, Art-Craft Optical, Victory Optical, American Optical, and Bausch and Lomb (with the Ray-Ban Browline); each company differentiated their frames through unique plaques on the upper corners of the frames, which sometimes also served to cover the rivets attaching the ...
The sunglasses were redesigned with a metal frame in 1939 and promoted by Bausch & Lomb as the Ray-Ban Aviator. [12] According to the BBC, the glasses used "Kalichrome lenses designed to sharpen details and minimise haze by filtering out blue light, making them ideal for misty conditions." [12]
The Supreme Court of Nevada ruled that the ban was lawful in 1980. The brothel subsequently relocated to Pahrump in Nye County. Lyon County. Restricted brothels to Mound House area, east of Carson City, in 1970, forcing brothels in other parts of the county to close. Mound House. Starlight Ranch (1970s – early 1980s)
Original Ray-Ban Wayfarer The Ray-Ban Wayfarer is a (mostly) plastic-framed design for sunglasses produced by the Ray-Ban company. Introduced in 1952, the trapezoidal lenses are wider at the top than the bottom (inspired by the Browline eyeglasses popular at the time), and were famously worn by James Dean , Roy Orbison , Elvis Presley , Bob ...
The Westboro Baptist Church ( WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. It is widely considered a hate group, [nb 1] and is known for its public protests against homosexuals and for its usage of the phrases "God hates fags " and "Thank God for dead soldiers".
Japanese. Box office. ¥2.47 billion. The End of Evangelion is a 1997 Japanese anime science fiction film written by Hideaki Anno, directed by Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki, and animated by Gainax and Production I.G. [33] It serves as an alternate ending to the original series, in quite a similar way to the first movies.
It would improve the article if the current and past manufacturing locations of Ray-Ban's were identified in the article. For example, classic pre 1999 Ray-Bans then owned by B&L "could" be assumed to be US or North American produced. --TGC55 11:56, 6 September 2020 (UTC) Reply