The bed in Nancy Gerrish’s bright Los Feliz home appears perfectly normal — carved wooden headboard, fuzzy brown blanket, cream-colored bed skirt. The sheets are a tasteful leopard print. A few ...

It was 1968 in San Francisco. One year after the Grateful Dead joined Jimi Hendrix, the Mamas and the Papas, and Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Pop Festival. A year after 100,000 hippies descended ...

Hike up your bell bottoms. The waterbed is relaunching in Florida. But don't confuse this new waterbed with the Free-Love symbol of the '70s. Gone (at least mostly) are the oceanic waves, now tamed by ...

Charlie Hall loves the water. He lives right on it, in a beautiful home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. And as an inventor, over the years he's come up with all kinds of ways to utilize water, from ...

If you remember the ’80s, then you likely coveted — or owned — a waterbed. During the height of the liquid-filled mattresses’ popularity, one in five beds sold was a waterbed. In the 1960s, a graduate ...

Shortly after they got married, the Arlington Heights engineer and his new bride went shopping for a bed. On impulse, they tried out a waterbed, liked it, decided it would add to their conjugal bliss, ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – The waterbed was just a concept in a San Francisco art gallery, and Charles Hall was just a young graduate student floating an idea back in 1968. Half a century, a popular ...

He used Jell-O and cornstarch at first, but the squashy gunk, poured into a vinyl bladder, was too heavy to move. And it began to stink after a few days. Then he tried water. “Rancid Jell-O Led to ...

It may never join the loftiest ranks of modern furniture design, those hallowed niches reserved for the likes of Mies van der Rohe or Charles Eames. And it is possible to overstate the cultural ...

"I didn’t know what a condom was," the actress recalled as she opened up about the first time she had sex on her 'Desperately Devoted' podcast Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at ...

While the word “waterbed” may trigger flashbacks to groovier times, the idea of sleeping on a water-filled mattress has never completely faded away. Waterbed enthusiasts still praise the bed’s ...