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 ...

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 ...

After marketing made them a cradle of countercultural kink, the beds fell out of style in the 1980s. But a Don Quixote 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 ...

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 ...

As the times change and fashion trends and consumer preferences shift, there are certain products and services that are never capable of keeping up with the times. These things tend to just fall off ...

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 ...

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 ...