Why don t hotels have vibrating beds anymore?

In the 1950s, manufacturers thought that weary travelers would surely love them and began marketing them to hotel companies. The people trying to sell the vibrating mattresses, though—including one John Houghtaling—discovered that hotels had no desire to replace their existing beds with costly, clunky vibrating ones.



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