Clint Meyer, OD

Dallas Eyeworks

Back to School! Don’t forget to put having your children’s eyes tested on your checklist. According to the American Optometric Association it has been estimated that up to 80% of a child’s learning is through his or her eyes. Undetected and untreated vision problems can elicit some of the very same signs and symptoms commonly attributed to ADHD.

“I don’t really belong here,” Teter says. “This should be retail.”

Such an off-handed remark may sound surprising coming from someone who was born and reared here. Teter is a Woodrow Wilson High School alumnus, whose father and brothers also are alumni. He’s a life member of the East Dallas Exchange Club.

He’s the definition of a Lakewood legacy.

But he won’t be mourning the day his family name is erased from the neighborhood’s commercial landscape.

“It’s just business,” Teter says matter-of-factly.

Offers are made on his property all the time, Teter says. At some point, there will be an offer he can’t refuse, though he didn’t say what it would take.

Once he retires, though, his family’s business won’t stay in the family, and it won’t stay in the neighborhood. Teter’s two apprentices behind the storefront counter live in Wylie and Rockwall, and he imagines the business will move in one of those directions.