From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Good Glasses Cheap
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:13:41 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:52:44 -0400
  "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

>
> Glass lenses have been illegal in this country for 30 or
>40 years, by
> federal law, due to the potential for injury should the
>glass break.   I
> stayed with glass lenses I'd purchased in 1959 until the
>mid-'80s for this
> reason.   (At that point they were making plastic lenses
>thin enough for me
> to use them without unbearable distortion at the edges
>-- my left eye
> requires a strong correction.)
>
> --Ted White
>

   I bought glass lenses 5 or 6 years ago in Virginia.
 All my previous lenses have been glass and I have bought
them in Iowa, and Kentucky and Virginia.  I probably could
have obtained glass lenses last time if I was prepared to
be obstinate.

     Madeleine