[Oral History Interview with Julia Jordan] Page: 3
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time you had to be married to join. You had to be
a Mrs. You could be a widow or something. They
didn't throw out. Later we let that down because
now that bar is not up because so many women now
prefer to be single and have their own lives to
live without that. So we didn't want to segregate
anybody for that. Like I said, that was my club.
We went to this hospital and gave these blankets
out. We do something every year. One year we went
to this other rest home over here on--I still call
it Oakland [now Malcom X Boulevard] and Martin
Luther King [Boulevard]. We gave them t-shirts. We
would get a plain t-shirt and fix it and embroider
something. Put the state of Texas on it or
something. We have some men up there and they
didn't want nothing too feminine. I'm not an
artist, so I put on "I am a cowboy too". [Laughs]
And the men wanted mine because they didn't want
anything too fancy. But during World War I these
women folded [bandages]--for the wounded soldiers.
So they sent all kind of blankets and so forth
over there for these men in the hospitals to take
care of them. They have worked through all the
wars, whatever they could do. And they stay
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