About Us

Prior to the 1979 copyright, our Dad “Arne Christensen Jr.” was employed at the Newport LNG plant. The plant went on strike. Dad and three co-workers were between shifts and crammed into a little camper at the LNG gate for strike duty.

 

They were chatting about their plight and schedule.  Dad was annoyed to be scheduled for strike duty, he felt he had a lot more productive projects he could be doing. Then he says “I’ve been in a lot of different unions…..I’m going to start my own union...The….. “United Brotherhood of Winos Dingbats and Riffraff.” This sparked quite a bit of laughter, and he grabbed some paper and sketched out his logo, adding in the affiliated with A.F.U and I.O.U.

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He had it copyrighted, and had a silkscreen made. We printed t-shirts by hand and sold them off a float he made for a parade.

 

Later he converted the float ( a trolly car ) into a hot dog stand and sold shirts out of it in the Barge Inn parking lot.  Then dad and his good friend Kent Dahlke entered into a license agreement to sell WDR shirts and other memorabilia from the Barge Inn for royalties.

 

Our Father was a unique, talented and gifted man! “Ingenious”. We feel we honor him and his legacy and are proud to be offering this intellectual property and art for us all to enjoy!

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Thanks For Reading!

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#1 Dingbat

(and the rest of the WDR family and friends)