No Ferris wheel and now no swimming pool for Memorial Day *

First, the Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica pier delays its debut because they couldn't get it put it together in time, and now comes news that the Echo Park Deep Pool, fresh from a 4 1/2 year, $6.9 million renovation, must also postpone its opening.

Plans for a splashy (sorry) pool dedication ceremony tomorrow just got called off because the water, which should be in the high 70s to low 80s, is now at a bone-chilling 65 degrees. Staffers for L.A. City Councilman Ed Reyes, in whose district the 26-year-old swimming pool is located, say the heater's hard at work and they're looking at sometime next week for the re-scheduled re-opening.

You can check the Heal the Bay report card for a clean beach to visit instead. But where's another Ferris wheel?

-- Veronique de Turenne

Photo: Los Angeles Times

* Updated with new photo

Comments

[martin cox]

This picture is NOT the deep pool referenced in the article, it is the also closed children's pool at the also closed Echo Park Recreation Center.

[Veronique]

Thanks, Martin. My mistake for grabbing the wrong photo. Fixed now.

Veronique