South Jersey wasn't always strip malls and banks. Sure, there have always been strip malls and banks, but it didn't used to be everything. They used to pop -- islands of bricks and light buried inside acres of piney foliage. East Gate Square always held a sort of regal feel in my childhood mind. When it was first built twenty years ago, I was 11 years old and I could see its over-sized faux bri...
