At lunch with a friend, we saw an ad for "Waterbeds N Stuff." We both, nearly at the same time, said "Does anyone actually sleep on waterbeds now?" Weren't they a fad of the 80s? As for myself, I had ...

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 first time I lay down on a waterbed, I thought, “Who wouldn’t want one of these?” The undulating motion of the water, the evenly distributed pressure against my body — so relaxing, and sensual too ...

For kids and adults alike, waterbeds used to be the coolest—until suddenly, they weren’t. After a heyday in the late 1980s in which nearly one out of every four mattresses sold was a waterbed mattress ...

I never throw anything away. That’s why I still have the waterbed, its mattress bubbling and gurgling like a mountain stream. I bought it in the 1970s, when waterbeds were all the rage. They became ...

Prior to my old waterbed finally springing a fatal leak a few years ago, I had a vivid, recurring dream in which I was drowning. In retrospect, I now realize my waterbed had sustained a series of ...

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 ...

My wife and I slept on one for over 20 years. We only recently switched...to a very firm matress with a pillow-top. The sex was fine thank you very much. Over the years we had several smallish type ...