Urban Optiks Featured In San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine

June 8, 2012
San Diego Home Gardens Lifestyles Magazine logo on an advertisement for retro sunglasses

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Urban Optiks carries some of the finest collections of high-end eyewear from around the world. We are very honored to be featured in the June 2010 edition of San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles which highlighted our retro-vintage collection of Oliver Goldsmith Eyewear as well as several of our other lines.


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