In each issue of Detroit City Limits, weâll profile a regular vendor at Detroitâs Eastern Market, focusing on some of the lesser-known vendors and products. This week: Bay Port Fish Co. Vendor: Owner Tod Williams and daughter Lakon Williams. Products: Fresh, frozen and smoked fish and other seafood from the Great Lakes.
No, they are made up. Yes, the Titanic really hit an iceberg and went down, but no Jack and Rose. The old lady at the end wasn't one of the real survivors either.
For years it was just another name, a headstone and a footnote. Until a 1997 cinematic blockbuster that propelled the Titanic catastrophe back to the forefront of public consciousness. J. Dawson didn't matter until James Cameron made the fictitious character of Jack Dawson a vehicle for his ice-struck love story.