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TimeBack Ep 3 – Lance Jeferson
Cayman’s youth find freedom, fun, and fierce competition on four wheels.
This TimeBack episode takes us to an era when skateboarding was more than a pastime, it was a movement in Grand Cayman. Boys of all ages would gather to compete, sharpen their skills, and showcase daring tricks.
It was a period when the island’s youth culture embraced the thrill of the sport, carving out memories and leaving their mark on Cayman’s recreational history.
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Cayman Compass
A window into the past with the Compass photo archives
A photograph of two men standing on a small motorboat, laying some of the last tree logs for a large bonfire near the reef in East End, sparks childhood memories for Graham Rankin of a decades-long tradition.
Rankin started down memory lane after seeing an old photograph from the Cayman Compass archives. It’s one of 300,000 being revived and digitised by Compass Media and Dart as part of a project to bring the islands’ past back to life.
As he stared at the black-and-white image with slightly squinted eyes and a tilted head, Rankin told the Cayman Compass, “I still remember like it was yesterday.”
Rankin recalled that the tradition started in the early 1950s, before his time, by the community men in East End.
