I was browsing Etsy's vintage section today, when I found this wire basket. This isn't just any ordinary wire basket. This particular basket comes with entire summers of childhood memories. It's the exact type that they used at the Community Center swimming pool when I was little. The front loop held a giant safety pin with a number stamped in it that matched the number on the basket. After piling all your clothes and towel into the basket and attaching the safety pin securely to your swim suit, you then shoved the basket into a cutout hole in the bottom of the door, where inevitably a high school summer hire picked it up and hopefully put it in it's correct slot until you were done swimming. To retrieve your basket, you simply had to slide your safety pin onto the little ledge of the door where you deposited your basket originally, watch your pin disappear and a few minutes later the basket would pop out the hole at the bottom of the door again.
It's funny how one little thing like a wire basket can instantly take you back to a shivering, dripping little girl staring at a hole in the bottom of the door with a crowd of other shivering, dripping girls all waiting to see who's basket would pop out next.
Androck Wire and Metal Locker Basket No. 507 from LisaBRetroStyle2.etsy.com. $28
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