![]() "I was working in the cafeteria at college at the time and desperate for cash, as most students are. "I started as a waitress, and didn't even know what a Déjà Vu was," she admits. Karen Gay is the owner and operator of the Saginaw Déjà Vu and started with the organization in Lansing back when she was attending Michigan State University. Indeed, their iconic logo of a garter-clad leg is probably as recognizable to most tri-city residents as the neon Bean Bunny shining atop the grain silo on I-675, yet the mystique, and stigma, remains. Today there are over 70 clubs worldwide, including locations in Paris, Washington, D.C., and California. ![]() The first club was in Kalamazoo, followed by Lansing, and then came Saginaw. Indeed, for a period of time he was the single largest distributor of adult material in the world. Based out of Durand, Michigan, he expanded these three clubs into a franchise of 132 clubs and numerous other adult businesses in 41 states as well as multiple clubs abroad. In terms of background, Saginaw Déjà Vu is the third of a trio of clubs built by Durand entrepreneur Harry Mohney back in the early 1980s. So having said this, it is incumbent for us to dig between the sheets a little deeper. Between what we believe as truth and what in fact is reality often falls a shadow, which only the discerning eye of discourse can escort into the light of day. Yet even today, the topic still carries a stigma - a kiss of 'taboo', if you will, upon the lips of moralists whom adhere deeply to the belief that human expression be confined to narrowly codified rules of behavior, and that nudity never be displayed amidst strangers, even if it’s from the skin of an Oscar winning actress shimmering down from the silver screen.īut as with most things in life, the devil is in the details. Erudite authors such as James Joyce reputedly wrote erotic stories for wealthy members of the upper class to finance his forays into serious literature, while arguably it was none other than publisher Hugh Hefner that first popularized the contemporary conception of the adult nightclub with his Playboy Clubs in the early 1960s. The notion of 'Gentlemen's Clubs' in reality is as old as ancient history, pre-dating Rome and referenced as harems in classical literature such as Tales from the Arabian Nights. īorn of humble beginnings when it boldly decided to break ground in the conservative farmlands of Mid-Michigan, over the past four decades it has managed to play by the rules while also testing them and today 40-years later it still holds its head tall and proud within its massive and architecturally tasteful 8,000 square foot facility right next to Communications Family Credit Union on Bay Road. Upon hearing the news that our region’s premier (and only) Gentleman’s Club known as the Saginaw Déjà vu was gearing up for its 40th Anniversary Celebration in early April, it seems appropriate to investigate a little deeper into this entity that in many ways has evolved into a cultural phenomenon. "Hypocrisy - prejudice with a halo.” -Ambrose Bierce I charge fifty dollars and it’s called immoral." - Xaviera Hollander (The Happy Hooker) "My method is basically the same as Masters & Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. ![]() “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” - Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
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