Nancy Gerrish, 78, reclines on her cherished waterbed with her dog Penny in her Los Feliz home. Gerrish has had a waterbed for 28 years after first sleeping on a friend's waterbed. (Genaro Molina / ...

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 ...

While it’s certainly not a full-scale revival, waterbeds have been making waves on social media lately. If you missed the trend the first time around, your curiosity might be piqued. So, are waterbeds ...

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 ...

TAMARAC, Fla. – Waterbeds still elicit a wink, wink, nudge, nudge whenever they come up in conversation — but two pioneers of the industry in the United States are hoping to generate a new wave of ...

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 ...

Millennials, the inventor of the waterbed has a message for you. Especially those of you living right here in the Pacific Northwest, like he does. You need a waterbed. Charlie Hall is 71 and a ...

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 ...

TAMARAC, Fla. — Waterbeds still elicit a wink, wink, nudge, nudge whenever they come up in conversation — but two pioneers of the industry in the United States are hoping to generate a new wave of ...