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The Founder of East Coast Jeans was Denny Scharwz who became our major sponsor for 4 years when our Club was struggling for financial support. His parents for many years ran a Clothing store called The Working Man’s Friend in Hopkins Street Footscray. Denny was highly regarded and respected by all.
It was after r4 in 1983 that Denny came on board. In 1983 not for the first time (Nor the last) we had gone into the season without a major sponsor so we went in with a 'Go West' type badge where the sponsors label would have been. But after we had won 3 of our first 4 Eastcoast (who had a factory in Maribyrnong and a big shop in Footscray) got on board. But the tariff led obsession with destroying local textile, clothing and footwear industries in the western suburbs closed Eastcoast down.