Ready to go back in time?
Just think of some of the chains that used to dot the landscape around the Garden State… Jamesway, Caldor, Two Guys, Bradlees, Clover, Sears, just to name a few.
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And that doesn’t even include old home improvement stores like Channel or Rickel’s, electronics stores like Silo and Circuit City, or supermarkets like SuperFresh, Pathmark, and A&P.
As a kid, I would spend my entire allowance in those places on anything I could find for a couple of bucks. And it was those childhood memories that came flooding back recently when I toured an old shopping center.
Nostalgia on the Black Horse Pike
In the world of shopping, among the things seemingly frozen in time in South Jersey is the Cardiff Shopping Center on the Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township, almost across the street from the old Shore Mall.
Locals know that the shopping center has certainly seen better days. And while several businesses do well there, a majority of the plaza has been empty for a long time…