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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Whatever you do, don’t call it a waterbed. The Wavy Gravy-era fixture evokes a time when the free flow, water-filled mattresses were closely associated with shag carpet and bead curtains. These days, ...

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 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Announcer: Wouldn't you rather spend your evening in a waterbed? For a limited time, $189.99. Girl: Daddy, can I have a waterbed? Please, Daddy, can I have a ...