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 ...

On my recent trip to Florida I picked up the Sarasota Herald-Tribune one day and started to flip through it. I stopped at a full-page ad. The ad was for the John W. Schultz Co.–a waterbed store. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LATHAM>> A local mattress store will shut down next spring after 40 years in business. Capitol Mattress and Waterbed Warehouse in Latham announced Monday that it will be closing its doors for good in ...

La Crescenta’s own “Waterbed King†is expected to shed a few tears as he says goodbye after nearly three decades of ownership of Pyramid Waterbeds. Armando Cardenas, 58, is retiring this month. He ...

Paul Drysdale has spent nearly half a century dispelling the foundational myth that a waterbed will improve your love life. The North York-based salesman says the late Sue Johanson, a client and the ...

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 ...

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 / ...