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In its isolation, the word about Cayman was still being spread going back to the Saturday Evening Post article in 1926 describing it as "a place you cannot find on most maps... where it is always afternoon." Another US magazine, National Geographic, wrote extensively in its August 1943 issue of the skill of Caymanian seamen trapping turtles in Nicaragua and described them as "hard-bodied but soft-spoken, seldom at home yet devoted to their families." In a return visit to Cayman in April 1950, the Saturday Evening Post magazine was to coin the phrase, "the islands that time forgot," that encapsulated those early times. The article described Cayman as a place where "parrot pot-pie is a favourite Sunday dish, there are three comely girls to every available young man, rum is cheap, and breadfruit is to be had for the picking."
The Houston Chronicle, in 1957, recommended Grand Canyon as a "perfect out-of-the-way vacation spot," and a high-quality booklet from the Cayman government assured potential visitors that "parents do not allow their offspring to beg or annoy; the children smile in a friendly way to their elders; and every one is willing to do his best to make one's sojourn happy." Although tourism was on the rise, a 1958 leaflet from the Commissioner's office asserted that "the principal business of the Dependency is not tourism but that of exporting seamen. Caymanians are first-class sailors and are to be found on tankers and merchant vessels all over the world." |