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The Big Apple: “First to Conquer Living Space” (Castro Convertibles) (652 words) |
 | Bernard Castro, the man who "conquered space -- living space, that is" -- by inventing and selling more than 5 million Castro Convertible sofas, died yesterday at his estate in Ocala, Fla. He was 87 years old. |
| Castro died of cardiac arrest, said his daughter, Bernadette, who became famous in New York as the little girl who opened the sofa with the "feather-lift mechanism" in commercials during the early days of television. |
| Castro, an immigrant from Italy who never finished high school, was a genius not only at designing a piece of furniture vital to people in space-cramped apartments during the Depression, but at marketing his product. |
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