Bed sizes and bed conception in the past...
Over here in Italy indeed king size beds are not much found....just full size ones, and so was in the past.
Also I can tell of people, married couples, especially in the south or in rural isolated areas that still in the 50s would have had separate beds.
This was common in 20s and 30s and 40s (even if in 40s something was moving on this sense), in the 50s few would still have separate beds, as I said, I mean wife and husband or whatever sleeping in separate beds...
I remember that as a child, 6-7 years old, I do not know why, I think because we wanted to purchase that home, I visited a rural home in a rural small town not far from here, the man, owner of the house, he key closed and kept the room of his parents like it was when they both died, that was happened in the late 40s or something like that..
As a child the thing that his parents didn't have a big common bed hit me much that I still remember it very well, like for the rest hit me the odd fact of him preserving the room that way...strange man infact...
I remember that seeing two separate single beds I innocently asked if his parents were angry to each other...LOL
He said no that it was how they did in those times...
I could not really realize why they would do so...as the times passed and I grew up, I realized it myself that in the past the conception of certain things were taken differently...
Now I wonder if the Amish also still use to sleep in separate beds or not...
[this post was last edited: 9/20/2013-07:55]
