[Leica] Monied class in the Back Bay?

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Scott:

The Back Bay is no longer what you think, hasn't been for many, many years.

Think Beacon Hill!

Jim


Scott McLoughlin wrote:

> Christopher Williams wrote:
> 
> Kenner and Metairie we created when the "better off" wanted to escape the
> poor and riff raff of the city of New Orleans. But yet New Orleans was on
> higher ground.
> 
> Both suffered severe damage so this man made disaster did not just effect
> the poor.
> 
> -------------------
> 
> Nah, those are *relatively* low rent upper middle class 'burbs. I'm not
> concerned with the doctor/dentist working stiff crowd in regrads to my
> inquiry.
> 
> I'm talking real wealth - as in, not having to work for a living, ever.
> Or your children, or their children.
> 
> I was talking about old (hence my term, "historically"), urban,
> and hardcore wealthy neighborhoods of the monied classes - places
> like Back Bay in Boston, Foxhall in DC - stuff like that (fill in your
> favorite examples). 
> Is the Garden District the equivalent in N.O.?  Dunno. I'm curious,
> how did it fair Katrina?
> 
> Scott
> 
> p.s. While the media seems to characterize Harvard as a "lefty"
> place, it's actually a wonderful place to meet bright young people who
> are so RICH that they will *NEVER* have to work a day in their lives
> (like most of their parents before them).
> I recall 18 to 21 year old boys crying in the Dunster House courtyard
> the day the market crashed in '87, including Robert Ziff (largest t-shirt
> collection I ever saw), one of the heirs to the magazine fortune (he and
> his brothers sold it off - why concern themselves with mere business?).
> 
> I shacked up with a girl, "Libby," briefly in "Deedee" Danforth's house.
> She bought a nice G'town townhouse to live in while attending lawschool.
> Her dad was the Senator, but more signifantly, heir to the Ralston Purina
> fortune. They had very nice, expensive art on the walls.
> 
> Another nice 24 year old girl I knew had a townhouse with a *huge*granite
> fountain - in her kitchen.  And less well heeled wives are so proud of 
> their
> granite counter tops - if they only knew :-)
> Really, the stories go on an on, I had a friend, Jonathan, who asked if
> he could miss class for an upcoming out of town board meeting - he was
> a 19 year old sophmore at the time.
> 
> Even at my prep school, they got us interested in Edgar Allan Poe with a
> spoof of "The Raven" where the refrain is "Buy a Ford" instead of
> "Never More." Like who would actually own a Ford? You get the idea.
> 
> BTW, Just observations.  I'm very much just a poor working class punk
> at heart, one who luckily liked to read and happened to test very well :-)
> 
> 
>> Chris