The city of Boise celebrates a big birthday — its 150th — in 2013. As part of the Idaho Statesman's special sesquicentennial coverage, we're compiling a list based on reader input of 150 classic, time-tested icons that make Boise the city it is.

What tells you you’re home?

Is it the State Capitol dome? The chicken on top of Jim’s Cafe? Bronco Stadium’s blue turf? The smell of the Foothills after a rain storm? The tasseled red hat sign at the Cabana Inn? The beef jerky at Smoky Davis? The washer woman on Vista?

We want to know.

We're running our list of icons daily in the paper and online beginning Thursday, Feb. 7. We'll continue for 150 straight days leading up to the city-wide birthday celebration on July 7, 2013.

Send us your submissions by Sunday, Jan. 13: email Anna Webb, awebb@idahostatesman, or send submissions by mail to Anna Webb, c/o The Idaho Statesman, 2100 N. Curtis Rd., Boise, ID 83706. Please include your name and contact info.