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On land, the hammock's heyday began in the Gay Nineties with lazy summer afternoons, moonlit verandas, lemonade, and mandolins. Its popularity began to sag with increasing use of air conditioning and the invention of foldup, finger-pinching, porch and lawn furniture.

Now the hammock is “in" again, not only with a certain nostalgic appeal outdoors, but hung in rec rooms and modern living rooms.

One family proudly sports a circular trampoline-like hammock where the coffee table used to be in front of the living room fireplace, and one ultimate hammockphile has spanned his backyard with a family-size version measuring 14 by 40 feet.

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