How waterbeds disrupted the mattress industry and then ebbed away

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In the early 1970s, regular mattresses were made of heavy coil springs with minimal padding. Then the waterbed arrived and it was a sensation. So what's behind its rise and fall?

abc.net.au/news/waterbeds-disrupted-mattress-industry-then-ebbed-away/101633462At their height of popularity in the mid-1980s, waterbeds made up one in five mattresses sold in Australia.

"When I first slept on a waterbed, I couldn't believe how much more comfortable it was than a regular bed," he said.The waterbed, as we know it, was invented in the late 1960s by Charles Hall, a design student at San Francisco State University."He was experimenting with ways to support the body and change the way people used furniture," University of Technology Sydney design historian Emily Brayshaw said.

"My sister and I thought it was quite luxurious, we spent hours watching MTV and just lounging around on it."They were fun, whimsical and a bit goofy with the constant motion of the ocean.

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Our Vinyl resting place...

Is the abc able to turn off comments like they do on facebook when the comment section doesnt go their way here?

Worst beds to have sex on, but awesome to sleep on

I loved it. I could sleep in warm comfort all year. No aircond and 2 dooners in summer. one click less on the temperature

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I loved my watered. But as I got older, I found i needed more support from a firmer mattress and eventually replaced it with a 'normal' mattress

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