Abbey Lincoln Smithsonian Interview Block 327 (Q12085)

The best we could. By bus, by car. The least expensive way. When I started to make a $100 a week in Honolulu, I thought wow, I didn't know there was all this money in the music, you know. I worked as a maid and I had made like $30 a week which was pretty good for a maid in that time. But I was making a $100 a week, finally a $150 a week. It's a privileged lifestyle, really, even though I compl ...