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…41teiVie H one store, and would mesh retail and restaurant in the way New York's Stage and Carnegie delicatessens had not \-done. /- "But we didn't want to be the Stage Deli of Ann Arbor," said Saginaw. "When people told us it [the con- cept] wasn't good, we knew we were on to something," he said. Saginaw admits that the partners first thought was to open a gay bar, but their bankers were somewhat appalled by the proposal. Saginaw, who had t...…

















































