by SALVATORE PANE I don’t know why, but the trend these days is to build banks in strip malls. There are no vaults, no elegant ceilings, rarely more than a lone yawning teller. My financial institution looks more like a cell phone store or a child’s drawing of a bank, stripped of detail or anything …
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