Remember, please moderate with the arrows! Don't forget to vote!Īnd let me know if you suspect your submission has been caught in the spam filter. So come in, have some fun, and enjoy the Reddit discussions that you remember from years past. We just don't rely on using memes and rage comics to prove it to each other. And we may still go to school, but our last high school final was many moons ago.īut this isn't a sub solely for serious, adult discussion, either. Sure, we may still play video games, but most of us have no clue how to play Pokemon. “The millennials buying the futons, we can’t get them interested in the waterbeds,” said Hardman.This is a community for Redditors that are starting to get that "get off my lawn" feeling whenever they check their front page. He sold Lollis both her waterbeds, and he’s eager to see something revitalize his industry. So is Lynn Hardman of Southern Waterbeds and Futons in Athens, Georgia. Hall is curious to see who buys more, baby boomers or younger customers. City Furniture is extending its Afloat test market to nine of its 17 Florida stores, and Geraghty said Hall Floatation website sales will soon be available. The first shipment of about 40 beds sold out within a month, Koenig said. But he’s decided it’s time to reintroduce them. Koenig pulled the plug on waterbed sales at City Furniture stores about 20 years ago because he was unhappy with the available supply. “The parties at the trade shows in the ’70s and ’80s, well, I couldn’t stay long, and Charlie was not that kind of guy either.” “Charlie was a smart, conservative, laid-back, California design guy, and this industry that he grew, that he started, became pretty wild,” Koenig said. Koenig is quick to clarify that while one of Hall’s waterbeds was covered in velvet and featured in Playboy magazine, the inventor was no Hugh Hefner. “I hope they think I’m a femme fatale, you know? If there is any sexual innuendo, good! I’m kind of a weird, different person. After hearing about the Afloat venture, she said she’d love to take Hall out to dinner to compare their adventures as waterbed owners. Two years ago, for her 80th birthday, Lollis bought a new waterbed, and she still gets a kick out of the looks she gets about her bedroom setup. “I bought it because it was different, it was controversial, it was almost a conversation piece,” said Lollis, a retired corrections deputy. She bought her first one 40 years ago, about the same time she installed a mirror on her bedroom ceiling in her red-roofed mobile home in Hull, Ga. If those guys think Dart is swell, they should meet Jeri Lollis, who really seems to be living her best life with a waterbed. “Everybody is like, ‘Really, you got a waterbed?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, they’re really good, they’re better than they ever were.’ I’m like a pop-culture hero now with the guys at work.” ![]() “It’s like floating, it’s so nice,” Dart said at his Coral Springs home. When he went mattress shopping in June, he was thrilled to see the Afloat beds at City Furniture and bought the first one. His waterbed didn’t move with him to Florida several years later, and Dart said he missed its comforting warmth. ![]() Michael Dart was one of those 1980s customers in Rochester, New York. “People who might have bought it for Saturday nights, then started using it every night,” Hall said. By the mid-1980s, the Waterbed Manufacturers Association reported roughly $2 billion in annual sales. It’s been 50 years since Hall initially designed a waterbed for a thesis project at San Francisco State University. With materials unavailable in waterbeds’ heyday, Hall said, “it’s been kind of fun to reimagine all the things to make the design better.” “Seeing a thing undulate like they did in the early 1970s, people looked at it and said, ‘Well, this is an interesting ride,'” Hall said. They’ve traded product names Hall used in the 1970s such as The Pleasure Pit and Pleasure Island for the sober-sounding Firm and Pure models. They range from about $2,000 to $3,300 - adjusting for inflation, about the same cost as a waterbed in 1975. Koenig, whose furniture store chain started as Waterbed City in 1971, has joined with Hall and former waterbed manufacturer Michael Geraghty to form Tamarac-based Hall Flotation, which produces the Afloat waterbeds.
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