Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nancy Gerrish, 78, reclines on her cherished waterbed with her dog Penny in her Los Feliz home. Gerrish has had a waterbed for 28 ...

Waterbeds once made up 22% of the mattress market, and a reviewer explains exactly why they eventually disappeared.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you were around in the 1980s and 1990s, you undoubtedly had or knew someone who had a waterbed, but they quickly fell out of fashion to the point that most young adults today have never even heard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...