Old City Names and City Nerdisms

The LA Times has a great article about the names of the Downtown residential buildings coming back into style by drawing on their former commercial names. Particularly interesting is the story of the Chapman Building and its "LA" on the stairwell (nice homage to the City, even if it was about the development company!).

Also of note, and somewhat out of place (like there was a transition or explanation missing) was a comment about a potential City Nerd contender for 2007, Greg Fischer:

"Greg Fischer, an aide to Councilwoman Jan Perry, wields such knowledge of downtown's historic past that you'd think he'd lived there since the early 1900s. He can rattle off details about old buildings as if they were family."

It's good to know he knows things, but why was this included in the article? Did he provide the information? If so, it wasn't made clear that the historical facts were coming from him. He's a council aide to watch, for sure.