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For my 16th birthday (mid 1960s) my parents took me to my choice of restaurant for dinner. I chose The Forum of the Twelve Caesars in NY City (we lived about an hour's drive away.) The place was amazing. I still remember what I ordered: jumbo shrimp cocktail, Caesar salad (of course!), truffle-stuffed squab, and crepes Suzette for dessert. I bought a special cocktail-type dress for the occasion and still have a photo of me wearing it: knee length, long sleeves, scoop neck and made entirely of sparkly gold lame. My dad gave me a white cattleya orchid corsage which I wore in my hair (it was long then) instead of on the dress. My mom gave me a "Sweet 16" charm for my charm bracelet.
To be honest I don't recall what I did or got for my 18th birthday. I was out of high school and working fulltime by then. I'm sure we went out to dinner but I don't recall where.
When I was 21, I was probably dating somebody but I'm darned if I can remember who it was or if we did anything special. I come from a very small family and so birthdays and holidays were typically celebrated by the three of us going out to dinner. We weren't "birthday party" people and I still am not. Dinner out and gifts were how we celebrated things.
I remember for my twelfth birthday being allowed to invite one of my friends out for lunch BY OURSELVES! That was so exciting and grown up. And at a friends suggestion, I threw a party when I turned 33 1/3, a third of a century. Everybody thought that was a great excuse for a party. The most memorable gift I ever got was for a nonbirthday event - it was a leather briefcase stamped with my initials my parents gave me for law school graduation. I used it my entire working life.
You all are invited to the two thirds of a century celebration in a few years.
Don't remember my 16th birthday. But for my 14th birthday, my older brother drove me and my two best friends to a fast food place for dinner and a drive in movie. Had a wonderful time.
My parents bought me a piece of luggage and a set of retread tires for my high school graduation and 18th birthday. They obviously wanted me to leave home for college but travel safely.
For the 21st, I went with friends to a bar/nightclub legally for the first time - this was a big milestone as I loved to go out dancing. Probably got some small presents too but not much. This was definitely not my first taste of alcohol - started drinking in high school.
Wish I could say I could remember Any of them. I guess 18 is the closest, I was kicked out of the house (week after HS graduation). Not as terrible as it looks at first glance, I was doing summer classes at college and staying in an on-campus apartment. I think I was homeless on my 21st, nope homeless on my 20th and probably working an overnight shift on my 21st.
Glad life picked up noticeably from there, but that was a rough 4~5 years.
Somewhere in that age range, maybe birthday but I think more likely Christmas, my Dad got me a (Belgian) Browning A-5 in 20 gauge. I remember unboxing it, how great it looked, taking it shooting the first few times. It still looks as new, still have it of course. It came to me with an IC plain barrel, at gun shows I found a modified and full choke barrel so now I have all 3 (they are interchangeable without gunsmithing). I don't have a "slug special" barrel, would like to have one, although with Lord knows how many rifles, why I would hunt deer with a 20 gauge slug escapes me. To get to areas of "slug only" deer hunting I would have to drive across far better hunting areas, where I can use rifles. Would like to have a slug barrel, just to have it I guess.
I don't really remember anything big, although I suspect my parents took me out to dinner at a nice place and I just don't remember it. At 16 I got a camera, which was a nice gift that I used a lot. My 18th birthday I mostly remember being very depressed because my boyfriend had just dumped me. We probably did something, but I've forgotten. The year I was 21 happened to be a bad year in my family, so we probably didn't do much. I remember having a big party when I turned 30.
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