John Cage A Year from Monday, Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, CN, 1967, 1931, 1926, 1924
p. 273 "When the depression began, I was in Europe. After a while I came back and lived with my family in the Pacific Palisades . . .
"About a year later, the family had to give up the house in the Palisades. Mother and Dad went to an apartment in Los Angeles. I found an auto court in Santa Monica where, in exchange for doing the gardening, I got an apartment to live in and a large room back of the court over the garages, which I used as a lecture hall. I was nineteen year old and enthusiastic about modern music and painting. I went from house to house in Santa Monica explaining this to the housewives. I offered ten lectures for $2.50. I said, "I will learn each week something about the subject that I will then lecture on."