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 ...

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 ...

I never throw anything away. That’s why I still have the waterbed, its mattress bubbling and gurgling like a mountain stream. I bought it in the 1970s, when waterbeds were all the rage. They became ...

Prior to my old waterbed finally springing a fatal leak a few years ago, I had a vivid, recurring dream in which I was drowning. In retrospect, I now realize my waterbed had sustained a series of ...

Prior to my old waterbed finally springing a fatal leak a few years ago, I had a vivid, recurring dream in which I was drowning. In retrospect, I now realize my waterbed had sustained a series of ...

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 ...

When Florencia Martin was hired as production designer on “Licorice Pizza,” she knew what would bring credible San Fernando Valley energy to its early 1970s setting. “There was lots of signage then.