Les Connor, owner of the Carrington Motel, member of New Light Church. Owned another small motel on Parramatta Road between Auburn and Merrylands that serviced traveling salesman (yes, still in existence), families stopping over who chose the wrong place to stop, low rent criminals, low-level dealers on long term rates scrounging around to make the rent each week. Men and women checking in for a night or an afternoon of s****l assignation or longer one-night stands after meeting in beer barns or crappy, down-market nightclubs that were located on the once log-jammed metropolitan road. It was still chockers with cars at times but there were freeways and tollways if you wanted to bypass it now. Part of Sydney’s rich tapestry.
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