Legendary State Fair of Texas Funnel Cake Purveyor Wanda ‘Fernie’ Winter Dies at 95
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State Fair funnel cake maven Wanda ‘Fernie’ Winter has died
Wanda ‘Fernie’ Winter, the State Fair of Texas fixture known for serving up powdered sugar-dusted funnel cakes from her concession stand at The Dock, passed away this past weekend, her family has announced. She was 95 years old.
Winter first started working at the State Fair with her husband in 1967, according to the Dallas Morning News. After a trip to Branson in the 1980s, where they tasted funnel cakes for the first time, Winter and her husband John decided to bring the dish to the State Fair of Texas. Eventually, Winter’s funnel cakes developing a large enough following that her four daughters had to step in to assist her. By 2019, the last time the fair took place, Winter had five separate Fernie’s Funnel Cakes stands at the event. Her funnel cakes had been
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Hidden Door sets June 16 as re-open date
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Harvey Meissner, standing, has announced that the Hidden Door will re-open June 16.
Hidden Door Dallas has announced via social media that the bar is set to re-open Wednesday, June 16, on the birthday of the late Tony Bobrow, who owned the club from the late 1980s until his death in February 2018.
The Hidden Door is now owned by The Anthony Bobrow Trust which is overseen by Harvey Meissner and a second trustee. Beginning in 2019, the Bobrow Trust began making regular grants to LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS organizations.
Meissner is president and general manager of the Hidden Door, and after Texas bars were shut down by order of the governor and, in Dallas County, County Judge Clay Jenkins, Meissner has chosen to keep the bar closed until Jenkins and county health department officials said it was really safe to re-open (despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to allow bars and restaurants to re-open earlier this year at full capacity