Though it’s hardly the first time there’s been talk of a comeback, new sleep-focused consumer trends may be turning the tide. It’s a few months back, and I’m settling into my uncle’s property on ...

Robert Gaddie, whose waterbed store was one of the early businesses that established the 9th and 9th neighborhood and contributed to the area’s underground culture, has died. He died Dec. 6 after ...

One of the iconic inventions of the 1960s and the summer of love, the waterbed, is still very much in use today. While it's fallen from the heights of popularity it enjoyed in the 1980s — when at one ...

At their height of popularity in the mid-1980s, waterbeds made up one in five mattresses sold in Australia. By the 90s, demand had collapsed and waterbeds were left with a reputation of being daggy, a ...

The simple act of buying her son a waterbed led Irene Duell to own and operate one of the busiest waterbed outlets in the region, Waterbed Heaven in Quakertown. In 1983, the Coopersburg resident ...

The waterbed was invented by a San Francisco State University graduate student in 1969, and it quickly captured the American imagination. It soon became a symbol of the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll ...

Waterbeds are making a comeback at City Furniture this week. The Tamarac-based business got its start as Waterbed City in 1970s but sold its last waterbeds in 2003, going on to build a chain of 27 ...