Did husbands and wives in the 50/60's really sleep in seperate beds?

[Stepharoonie!]

I was watching an old episode of The Twilight Zone, and it showed the mom and dad sleeping in seperate beds. I know a lot of old t.v. shows show that as well. So, was that really how it was? Or was it something made up?

 

[Allison]

It was for television-they couldn't show a man and woman in the same bed. Mike and Carol Brady were one of the first couples shown sleeping in the same bed.

 

[Pam]

It was for the TV censors - they didn't permit a man and a woman to be shown sleeping in bed together.

Rob and Laura from the Dick VanDyke Show also had twin beds.

 

[palmtreegirl]

My grandparents did.

 

[FreshTressa]

My grandparents slept in separate beds.

 

[princesspiglet]

I can only remember my grandparents sleeping in seperate beds, heck they even slept in seperate rooms! However, they did have 13 kids, and my mom was the youngest, so maybe they were just tired of each other by then!

 

[Madaboutthemouse]

My grandparents still do. They have twin beds in their bedroom, but my Grandma sleeps on their couch. They both snore like crazy!

 

[mickeyfan2]

My grandparents slept in the same bed.

For TV they then had the one foot on the side of the bed rule.

 

[Honu]

My grandparents were in their young forties when I was born (in 1963) and they slept in separate beds. I thought my parents were poor because they had to share.

 

[sugarpie]

Both sets of my grandparents had seperate bedrooms. My mom is one of ten children and my dad was one of five so they obviously got along in the bedroom. I think it's just a matter of getting some sleep. I'd have my own bedroom too, if my husband would go for it.

 

[tiggersmom2]

My grandparents slept in the same bed.

 

[Horseshoes]

My grandparents had seperate beds

 

[CEDmom]

My parents slept in seperate twin beds and yet they somehow managed to have 4 kids . My dad was a big guy and my mom just liked having her own space. King beds weren't very common back then.

 

[mickeyfan2]

I know that my grandparents said that some families only had two bedrooms. In those cases the mom and daughters slept in one bedroom and the dad and sons in the other. They must have found times to get together to make all the daughters and sons.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

My parents always slept in the same bed, as did (do) my in-laws. I wouldn't mind having my DH in a different bed or even room sometimes the way he snores.

 

[FroggyinArk]

the first tv coupole to sleep in the same bed was actually fred and wilma flintstone


look it up.


and i know people that sleep seperately because of sleep issues, dw and i considerit, she snores something awaeful.






ok really it is me that snores, but she puts up with me anyways.

 

[laura001]

My grandparent's slept in different beds. I wish my DH a I would sleep in separate beds, either that or we get a king size bed, he is always on my side We have two sets of friends that both sleep in separate bedrooms, happily married. The one set actually had their house built with two master bedrooms!

 

[Golf4food]

the first tv coupole to sleep in the same bed was actually fred and wilma flintstone

Darn. You beat me to it by ten minutes! That is always a good fact to "throw out there" during discussions of useless trivia (I'm full of it... useless trivia, that is... )

 

[scraptoons]

Come to think of it, one set of my grandparents did have two full sized beds in a long room added across the back of a small house.

They had lots of kids too! I guess if they shared a bed, they would have had twice as many kids? They didn't have very many options of BC.

One bed was at each end. I always thought it was strange to have two big beds in one room. Never thought of it until now since their beds weren't twin sized, like the ones on tv.

My other grandparents shared a queen sized bed until death did them part.

My parents had one king size bed they shared (and me in between whenever a thunderstorm rolled in at night).

 

[princesspumpkin]

Dh's grandparents had separate bedrooms.

Way to have it all - work opposite shifts. The best of both worlds. Get to sleep separate sometimes, and together sometimes