Although Utah born, the Spectacle now resides in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, harmoniously bringing together comfort and style at like nowhere else.
Our opticians are passionate about quality eyewear, and you’ll see that through every lens at the Spectacle.
Travis began his optical career in Las Vegas, Nevada at a well known “one-hour” optical chain store. He was quickly promoted to Lead Laboratory Technician while still in high school! Just out of school, he took his optical skills to a large lab working as Assistant Manager, overseeing the manufacture of hundreds of lenses and eyeglasses every day.
In 2006, Travis and his wife Nicole moved their family to Salt Lake City to join forces with his father, John, at the Spectacle, where they worked together to integrate their separate styles and ideas into the business for 13 over years. Travis was recruited by the largest optical lens manufacturing company in the world in 2019 to repair a derailed branch lab. After completion of his contract and rescue of the wayward lab, he returned to the Spectacle and purchased the family business from his father in 2023.
While working towards opening the 2nd location of the Spectacle in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, under failed negotiations with the shopping center, Travis decided not to renew our lease in the Salt Lake City location that was home to the Spectacle for almost 40 years. The family tradition continues in New Mexico! Travis, Nicole, Caitlin and Chris invite you to visit and see the difference that quality and experience make.
As a boy, John found himself hunched over a flickering candle one day trying to adjust his eyeglasses for a better fit. “Glasses shouldn’t have to be uncomfortable,” he remembers thinking.
Not surprisingly, all the eyewear at the Spectacle is comfortable.
As an adult, with decades behind the bench designing custom eyeglasses in his store on the Las Vegas Strip for the likes of Elvis, Elton John, Ann-Margret, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., plus plenty more of us who have never stepped foot on a stage… John says that eyewear doesn’t have to be ugly either.
John’s attention to detail, old-world craftsmanship and unbeatable style has beckoned not only the stars, but Hollywood itself. He designed the tricked-out optics and spectacles for the original “Blade Runner”, starring Harrison Ford.
