I didn't have a pen of my own growing up. Parents had pens and children borrowed them. I loved my dad's Esterbrooks and he gave them to me a number of years ago.

Sometime in the 1970s, when I was a young adult, I bought my first fountain pen from Gray's Drugstore in Dinkytown (same Gray's Drugstore that Bob Dylan lived above at one point in the 60s). I bought a Sheaffer 330 cartridge pen and a box of Peacock Blue ink cartridges. I've since sold the pen, but here's a photo: