My parents bought me a yellow Imperial the year I turned 12. I wanted to go to summer camp and they didn't want me to go because it was too far away so they bribed me with the machine!
Then when I got married, my first Valentine's Day gift was a Singer 1425 that had a bobbin that wound in the machine... LOVED that feature. I still have that machine. I sew on a Janome 6500 now.