This getting old business isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And that’s pretty much what happened to Cape May’s Washington Street Mall: the pavement cracked, paint peeled, trees lost their gracefulness, water lines aged and Father Time, not to mention Old Man Winter, the summer sun and millions of footfalls, all contributed to turn the ingénue mall of the early 1970s into an aging dowager 30 plus years later.