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From origins in the 1950s until its ignoble end in the 1990s, the Contour Chair Lounge Company of St. Louis, MO produced bulky, weird looking, super comfortable chairs. Late night television was plagued with commercials like the above for the chair. Promising the chair was custom made to fit your body, offering wild discounts and fancy home electronics as perks, celebrity endorser Art Linkletter mercilessly hocked these lazy boys.
The company, sold at some point to the Craftmatic Adjustable Bed folks, came under scrutiny for its shady practices. The chairs were not custom made. The perks were hard to actually receive. Craftmatic said it wanted to focus on adjustable beds, so for over 20 years the ridiculous Contour Chair Lounge was forgotten by pretty much everyone
https://boingboing.net/2015/02/12/ho-ho-ho-now-i-have-a-co.html
Arthur Gordon Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which aired on NBC radio and television for 19 years. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Linkletter
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