There were all kinds of, like, craftsman houses - five, six, seven bedrooms. They lived in a charming little pocket of central Los Angeles called Berkeley Square. Van was just 3 years old, his sister Ra was 4 when their family moved here almost 70 years ago. MEHTA: Their house is now where the Santa Monica Freeway is. VAN NICKERSON: What she's pointing to, right there where that sign says this quarter next 3 exit, lift it up, our house is right about there. R NICKERSON: Yeah, that's where Berkeley Square was. JONAKI MEHTA, BYLINE: This is what Ra (ph) and Van Nickerson's (ph) childhood home sounds like today. The story of Sugar Hill brings to life many of these ideas we just talked about - segregation, racist covenants and who has the right to live where. We're going to go back in time now and visit a neighborhood in Los Angeles that no longer exists.
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