“Some call it Australia’s Barbary Coast – and there are a few pirates there for sure. Others call it Sin City – and there’s some of that around too. One Sydney Alderman wants it cleaned up. Another says it is worth a million a year the way it is. If you can believe what you read about it the inhabitants make their living out of baccarat, dope, witchcraft, prostitution, stripping – and selling each other salami.” 

ABC Television 1969 cited on http://fromthebarrelhouse.com/2012/02/29/a-taxi-ride-through-kings-cross-sydney-the-dirty-half-mile-1970