Winnipeg couch

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a simple, inexpensive couch which could be opened out into a double bed.

Quotations

1954

. . . he sat on the Winnipeg couch that stood at one end of the room. . . .

1958

The Winnipeg couch was a fine oldtimer, built of solid iron and coil springs in those days when Canadians fell into bed with their boots on.

1966

Then he opened a door and I saw them--twenty unshaven, hollow-eyed men lying under grey blankets on low Winnipeg couches opened up into beds.