Company history
Ralph Bradley opened his first furniture store in downtown Salt Lake City in the 1950s. He quickly developed a reputation as having one of Salt Lake’s best little furniture stores.
In the late 1970's Mr. Bradley decided to focus on sleep related products and built a 40,000 square foot Sleep Center in Murray Utah. At the time Bradley’s Sleep Center was the largest Sleep Center west of the Mississippi. Soon Bradley's became known as the premier destination for sleep related products in the Intermountain West. In the late 1970's into the early 1980's, Bradley's sold more waterbeds than any other store in the Intermountain West.
Mr. Bradley and his wife had 14 children, many of which learned lessons from working hard at the store. Mr. Bradley later left the daily operations of the Sleep Center to his sons. In the late 1990s after Mr. Bradley retired, one of his sons along with a long time employee Chad Downs took over the business. They opened up a second location in 1991 in South Salt Lake City, which is the current location of the business today. In 1997, the last Bradley in the mattress business left the company to Chad and his wife, Lesa. Together, they are now the owners of the one remaining Bradley's Sleep Etc., located in Salt Lake.
As the Water Bed era began to slow, Chad and Lesa focused intensively on updating to innerspring mattresses in the South Salt Lake store. Later, to compete with surrounding furniture shops, Bradley's immediately started to diversify from just selling sleep related products and became a full line furniture store. Today, Bradley's has focused on an excellent display of Rustic and Log Furniture, and work with several builders in the Salt Lake Valley that can customize almost every piece of furniture. Now, Chad and Lesa's son Matt works at the store as a salesman with many other experienced and helpful employees trained to make mattress shopping and rustic shopping an enjoyable experience.
Still, over the years Bradley's Sleep Etc. has maintained its expertise in selling the best brand mattresses at incredibly low prices. Today, Bradley's showroom still consists of thirty of the market's top selling matteresses and plenty of furniture to fill up your house. It truly is the one-stop shop to getting a great night sleep as well as home furnishings!