A pier gift
Michael Greenberg in the newly renovated Roundhouse Aquarium, which reopened Tuesday. Photo The unveiling of the new Roundhouse Aquarium Thirteen hundred and eight days since the passing of his 19-year-old son Harrison, Michael Greenberg on Tuesday stood before a podium at the end of the Manhattan Beach pier and looked out into the crowd. “The skies opened up for us today,” said Greenberg. Behind him, light spilled from the Roundhouse Aquarium as the sun lowered over the Pacific near the end of a sky blue day. Several hundred people were gathered for the reopening of the Aquarium, but this was no ribbon cutting. Greenberg, the president of Skechers, was here to mark the culmination of a 42-month long journey that began with the death of his eldest son in an accident abroad. Harrison Greenberg’s years were marked by an exuberant curiosity and a wide sense of adventure, qualities that found fullest expression in the Pacific Ocean. The Aquarium had helped foster this sense of wonder. As a little boy, Harrison scampered across the concrete platform his father now stood upon dozens of times on his way to visit the Roundhouse. And so only days after losing him, Michael and Wendy…
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