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.
There was a man named J. Dawson (Joseph Dawson) who died aboard the Titanic. His gravestone bears the inscription J. Dawson.(picture below) But James Cameron did not know that he existed until AFTER he wrote the Titanic screenplay and therefore could not have based the Jack character on J. Dawson.