Joe Patten: The Phantom of the Fox

By Steve Goss

Atlanta – Ask Atlantans to list the characteristics of our city's most cherished icon the Fabulous Fox Theatre, and they're likely to cite the starry blue ceiling, the Arabesque architecture, the Mighty Moeller organ but NOT the white-haired gentleman who lives there upstairs. He's Joe Patten, the wizard behind the curtain, the Phantom of the Fox'. Patten's association with the theatre began over 50 years ago.