About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, while a delivery driver was unloading new frames into Russ’ Uptown Optical, he noticed something odd—a faint whiff of freshly baked cookies wafted through the air. The shop had always been known for its meticulous attention to detail and cleanliness, but this sweet scent seemed out of place. As he followed the smell, he found an old lady next door baking cookies as she often did on Sundays. Turns out, her treats occasionally drifted over, adding a touch of neighborhood warmth to Russ’ usually stoic establishment. The delivery driver grinned, thinking it was just another quirky tale from their cozy uptown district.
2. One day, as an old lady was browsing through the frames at Russ’ Uptown Optical, she asked the clerk: ‘Do you have any glasses that can see through walls?’ The clerk smiled and replied, 'We have some special lenses that can make things look bigger or smaller, but seeing through walls—well, that's beyond our scope!' The old lady laughed heartily and said, 'Never mind then,' picking up a pair of stylish reading glasses instead. 'I just wanted to know if they had any for spying on my nosy neighbor.'
3. While adjusting his glasses in front of the mirror, a regular noticed something peculiar on one of the shelves: a pair of frames that seemed to change shape whenever someone walked past them. Curious, he picked up the frames and tried them on—only to see himself reflected as a famous Russian actor from an old movie. Confused but amused, he asked the owner who laughed and said, ‘Ah, those are our “special” frames for customers who need a little pick-me-up!’
4. In the dimly lit storeroom of Russ’ Uptown Optical, a delivery driver was unpacking boxes when he stumbled upon an oddity—an ancient pair of spectacles with lenses so thick they seemed to bend light in strange ways. Curious, he put them on and suddenly everything around him appeared distorted—his coworker looked like a caricatured version of himself, and the shelves wobbled as if about to dance. Just then, an elderly gentleman walked in, squinted at him, and asked, ‘Young man, do you need your eyesight adjusted?’ The delivery driver hastily removed the glasses, and all returned to normal. He never told anyone what happened that day.