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 / ...

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 ...

The 1980s were a wild time. This includes interior design trends. While you never know what the future might hold, these are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Paul Thomas Anderson has surveyed L.A.’s San Fernando Valley from every angle in films like “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia” and “Punch-Drunk Love.” For his latest, “Licorice Pizza,” which opens wide on ...

Researchers are studying the effects of spaceflight on the human body by placing women in waterbeds for five days. Scientists in Toulouse, France are placing 20 women in bathtub-like containers as ...