Now he’s co-trustee of the trust that owns the bar. Dan Cutrer is the attorney who incorporated the Hidden Door 40 years ago for Roberts. Harvey Meissner is now the president and general manager of Hidden Door, as well as co-trustee of the Tony Bobrow Trust. Before Bobrow died in February 2018, he had arranged for a different trust to manage the bar after his death. Before his death, though, he created a trust that owned the bar and named Tony Bobrow the new president of the trust. Roberts died 1988, when he was still in his 50s. Roberts kept the name and turned it into a gay bar. By the time Roberts bought the bar, more people knew the Hollywood leading man was gay. When the bar was originally named, Hudson’s sexual orientation was hush-hush. The original owners, a couple of Braniff pilots, told Roberts the bar’s name came from a line in a Doris Day / Rock Hudson film in which Hudson tells Day he’s going to stop in at the Hidden Door, the bar in the hotel where they’re staying.
The bar already had been around at least a decade when Roberts bought it. Dallas – In 1979, Jim Roberts bought the Hidden Door bar, when it was still a straight bar frequented by airline employees coming over from Love Field.
