I found a few more pictures.
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I moved to Oregon during the late 70's and remember the weather during my time there as: raining, just rained, and going to rain. There was a t-shirt for tourists that said: "Oregonians don't tan, they rust." I can understand her feelings about the rain and just trying to have clean, dry clothing and shoes everyday.
The social class structure was interesting and somewhat carried over to present day. Yes, there was prejudice for "dirty Indians" (I'm part Indian) who did nothing much but drink (they usually couldn't get decent jobs off the reservation), but also "town folk" (small local towns), "city folk" (big cities), "backwoods", "hicks", "hillbillies", "white trash", etc.
When I read PG Wodehouse's book,
Love Among the Chickens, I noted the class structure and found it funny that even though they were suppose to be "chicken farmers", there was still time to play golf and socialize with those of your social (or near social) standing.
I have a feeling that Betty's stories were toned down a bit for her book. I'm sure that the stories she told to her "city" friends went into a lot more detail and contained a lot more prejudicial comments about "backwoods folk" than what was published.
I'm beginning to think the reason I liked this book was that it was like some of the stories that I heard from my family.