Article: Back Bay's tower of wealth ; Luxury Mandarin to open next week

In the 1970s, a movie theater in this section of Back Bay showed "Deep Throat." Until recently, this particular stretch of Boylston Street, in the shadows of the Prudential Center, featured an unsightly garage where Duck Boat tours picked up and dropped off tourists.

Wealth in Boston was not here. Traditionally, most of the wealth in Boston and its environs was tucked away behind the brick facades of Louisburg Square or in the creaky Victorians of Cambridge and Wellesley. Wealth, in this most Puritan of American cities, was seen as something the rich spent discreetly, and did not show off. Think Edward "Ned" Johnson III, an unassuming billionaire in his staid gray suits, walking from the ...

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