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Article: Back Bay's tower of wealth ; Luxury Mandarin to open next week
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2008
- Author:
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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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