THE WATER BED
(Daily Chronicle October 26, 1970)
Ever been spanked as a child for wetting your bed? Well this would not have happened if you had slept on a water-bed.
Costing $500 the water bed can be seen on display at T. Geddes Grant (Guyana) Ltd. In Main Street and it carries a 50-year warranty.The revolutionary water bed holds one ton of water and it can bear the weight of two persons with a total of 350 pounds.
With advertising slogans like “Enjoy the most relaxing sleep of your life-every night”
The “Signature” water-bed is something to see for the adventurous to sleep on.
You may say: “It’s all right for couples but what about me, I have kids.”
Well the manufacturers cater for “Bat Man,” “Superman” and the whole army of swordsmen who carry pins and other sharp-edged playthings. It comes with a patch kit and if punctured the hole can be covered before the water leaks out. When moving, the water bed can be emptied and refilled with a hose.
For a more attractive bed the water can be colored and there would be no need for a sheet.
Perhaps later a means could be devised to even have a few fishes swimming around in the water bed.
Want to sleep like a mermaid then try it.
(a look at some of the stories that made the news “back-in-the-day with Clifford Stanley)