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The wild history and current fight over Sydney's Metro-Minerva Theatre

Steven Baker remembers the glory days of the Metro-Minerva Theatre in Sydney's Kings Cross. (ABC RN: Sophie Kesteven)

"It was bohemian. It was very racy. It was urbane. It was countercultural. It was glitzy and glamorous … [But] the place has changed dramatically."

Steven Baker is in a backstreet of Sydney's Kings Cross — a once infamous neighbourhood, that's gone from heady days of art, sleaze and crime, to the city's party capital, to lockout laws and gentrification.

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