Joe Patten was instrumental in saving Atlanta’s old Fox Theatre movie palace from demolitionin 1974, forming a nonprofit to buy the property from Southern Bell. Today, at 80, he lives in a “one-of-a-kind housing arrangement. He lives rent-free in a stately 3,640-square-foot apartment under the onion domes, with 20-foot ceilings, leaded glass windows and balconies overlooking Ponce de Leon Avenue.”