ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
A wasteland of grim towers and empty plazas, Boston's Prudential Center tends to blight everything around it. In these two photos we're standing with you backs tot the Pru, looking across Boylston Sreet at an undistinguished strip of buildings that have, perhaps, been cursed by the Pru.
The first photowas taken in 1964, the second in 1990. Between those years, an economic boom transformed other parts of the Back Bay. But not this bock. The only real cha...