Happy Birthday, Houston!

Here's what your residents wish they could get you

25 things Houston deserves for its birthday We asked our readers to tell us what they would get our beloved city for its birthday if they were able. These were their top responses. 25 things Houston deserves for its birthday We asked our readers to tell us what they would get our beloved city for its birthday if they were able. These were their top responses. Photo: Tooga, Getty Images Photo: Tooga, Getty Images Image 1 of / 39 Caption Close Happy Birthday, Houston!

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Houston's birthday is Saturday. It's only the city's 178th birthday so there will be no fireworks and 10-tiered cakes for everyone to enjoy, but you should at least take time to toast the city. We suggest a local craft beer in its honor.

The city of Houston was founded on August 30, 1836. It was a Tuesday.

The 10-county Houston area has grown to a population of 6 million since its inception as a real estate venture by brothers John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen.

“There is no place in Texas more healthy, having an abundance of excellent spring water, and enjoying the sea breeze in all its freshness. No place in Texas possesses so many advantages for building, having pine, ash, cedar and oak in inexhaustible quantities; also the tall and beautiful magnolia grows in abundance. In the vicinity are fine quarries of stone,” said the original advertisement for Houston living in The Telegraph and Texas Register, a newspaper of note at the time.

With a birthday comes birthday presents and this week we asked Chronicle readers what they would get the city of Houston for its birthday, if money and plausibility was no option of course. Above are your responses.