OK, this is a no-COVID zone today.
Just let me say that my sister is getting better, and might be done with this—for now—as we speak.
Today is December 28, so I should have been completely done with this sickness protocol as of yesterday, as my 10-day cautionary period—having it, getting rid of it, and then taking precautions for five days—finally ended.
But I am taking extra caution, and I am still going to sleep on the Castro Convertible tonight, just to make sure—
Then, it is back into my own bed, and hopefully, that will help my sleep pattern to improve from what it is now: some sleep in the Castro Convertible, move to the living room to sleep, then move back into the Castro Convertible for my remaining sleep of the night—and this can happen a few times over until I finally get up and begin my day.
What with the cruise we had in November and moving into this month, I think that over the past month, I have slept in my own bed three times, but that streak will end on Thursday night.
And the Castro Convertible sure came in handy, but it is good for maybe a night or two, not nearly a month.
That being said, I am happy we had it to use, because I don’t know where I would sleep if we didn’t have it.
Castro Convertibles have been around since the early 1930s, and is a real New York point in history, as the company began in the Big Apple by Bernard Castro right in the middle of the Depression.
The company grew the brand as an “extra bed, but also a piece of furniture” for families looking to temporarily house other family members who were out of work or who had just come to this country from elsewhere.
The company continued to be popular through the 1940s and 1950s, and it was one of the first major companies to advertise regularly on this new gadget called television, where, in 1946, it demonstrated the ease of opening the sofa into a bed by using young, four-year-old Bernadette Castro as the model, opening the bed with ease.
If this young girl could do it, then anyone could!
And it was a perfect device for service members coming home from the war and needing temporary sleeping quarters, and years before Annette became the focus of attention on “The Mickey Mouse Club” as the country watched her grow from a child to a woman, Bernadette Castro was a similar focus of attention.
In fact, the younger Castro became one of television’s first commercial celebrities, and she had a long career as an ad pitchman, an actor, a singer and as a politician in New York City, where she held a number of positions in city government through numerous mayoralty administrations.
In 1993, around the time the elder Castro died, Castro Convertible was sold to Krause Furniture, but 15 years later, the Castro family started a campaign to get back control of the company and its intellectual property
In 2012, the younger Castro and her siblings got back that control of the company, but relocated it to South Florida, where I believe it operates today.
My family had one of the original Castro Convertibles in our house from the 1930s. It was originally owned by my grandparents, but we inherited it, and 50 years ago or more, I used to sleep on it when my grandparents were visiting and my bed was not available—six people in a two-bedroom apartment was a bit tight!
The mattress then was at least a few inches thick, and it was highly sleepable.
That sofa bed lasted until the 1980s, I believe, when the mechanism kind of died, and we got a newer model around that time, the one I have been sleeping on for the past three weeks.
The mattress is about an inch thick, and every time you turn over, you feel the metal mechanism from underneath grind into your body.
It is nowhere near as comfortable as the original model, but it has served its purpose over the past 40 years or so … so you can say that we are a Castro Convertible family, going back to the 1930s.
That being said, I will be so glad to get into my regular bed on Thursday evening.
We could use a new mattress, but whatever we have in there is just so much better than that poor Castro Convertible that I have been trying to sleep on.
And yes, you have to say that for what it was, it was one of the great inventions of the 20th century, as it expanded whatever quarters it was used in, so kudos to the Castro family for creating something that I have used off an on for so many years of my life.
On the other hand, I just cannot wait to get into my actual bed, and put this entire episode behind me—
And the operative word there is “behind” … as my behind might still be sore from sleeping in the Castro Convertible.
One more night!
I simply cannot wait!
Just let me say that my sister is getting better, and might be done with this—for now—as we speak.
Today is December 28, so I should have been completely done with this sickness protocol as of yesterday, as my 10-day cautionary period—having it, getting rid of it, and then taking precautions for five days—finally ended.
But I am taking extra caution, and I am still going to sleep on the Castro Convertible tonight, just to make sure—
Then, it is back into my own bed, and hopefully, that will help my sleep pattern to improve from what it is now: some sleep in the Castro Convertible, move to the living room to sleep, then move back into the Castro Convertible for my remaining sleep of the night—and this can happen a few times over until I finally get up and begin my day.
What with the cruise we had in November and moving into this month, I think that over the past month, I have slept in my own bed three times, but that streak will end on Thursday night.
And the Castro Convertible sure came in handy, but it is good for maybe a night or two, not nearly a month.
That being said, I am happy we had it to use, because I don’t know where I would sleep if we didn’t have it.
Castro Convertibles have been around since the early 1930s, and is a real New York point in history, as the company began in the Big Apple by Bernard Castro right in the middle of the Depression.
The company grew the brand as an “extra bed, but also a piece of furniture” for families looking to temporarily house other family members who were out of work or who had just come to this country from elsewhere.
The company continued to be popular through the 1940s and 1950s, and it was one of the first major companies to advertise regularly on this new gadget called television, where, in 1946, it demonstrated the ease of opening the sofa into a bed by using young, four-year-old Bernadette Castro as the model, opening the bed with ease.
If this young girl could do it, then anyone could!
And it was a perfect device for service members coming home from the war and needing temporary sleeping quarters, and years before Annette became the focus of attention on “The Mickey Mouse Club” as the country watched her grow from a child to a woman, Bernadette Castro was a similar focus of attention.
In fact, the younger Castro became one of television’s first commercial celebrities, and she had a long career as an ad pitchman, an actor, a singer and as a politician in New York City, where she held a number of positions in city government through numerous mayoralty administrations.
In 1993, around the time the elder Castro died, Castro Convertible was sold to Krause Furniture, but 15 years later, the Castro family started a campaign to get back control of the company and its intellectual property
In 2012, the younger Castro and her siblings got back that control of the company, but relocated it to South Florida, where I believe it operates today.
My family had one of the original Castro Convertibles in our house from the 1930s. It was originally owned by my grandparents, but we inherited it, and 50 years ago or more, I used to sleep on it when my grandparents were visiting and my bed was not available—six people in a two-bedroom apartment was a bit tight!
The mattress then was at least a few inches thick, and it was highly sleepable.
That sofa bed lasted until the 1980s, I believe, when the mechanism kind of died, and we got a newer model around that time, the one I have been sleeping on for the past three weeks.
The mattress is about an inch thick, and every time you turn over, you feel the metal mechanism from underneath grind into your body.
It is nowhere near as comfortable as the original model, but it has served its purpose over the past 40 years or so … so you can say that we are a Castro Convertible family, going back to the 1930s.
That being said, I will be so glad to get into my regular bed on Thursday evening.
We could use a new mattress, but whatever we have in there is just so much better than that poor Castro Convertible that I have been trying to sleep on.
And yes, you have to say that for what it was, it was one of the great inventions of the 20th century, as it expanded whatever quarters it was used in, so kudos to the Castro family for creating something that I have used off an on for so many years of my life.
On the other hand, I just cannot wait to get into my actual bed, and put this entire episode behind me—
And the operative word there is “behind” … as my behind might still be sore from sleeping in the Castro Convertible.
One more night!
I simply cannot wait!
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