KIMO CHAMBERLAIN

 

Smiling Kimo Chamberlain first appeared at the Fox in 1975 when he was 14.

Kimo attended the Paideia School and roved the neighborhood on his unicycle.

Kimo and his family lived at 364 4th Street, right behind the new Shrine Temple.

Kimo at Paideia School in 1977.

By the time Kimo was 17, he was a Fox employee and signed the petition to oust General Manager Ted Stevens in 1978.

By the time he was 19, Kimo had opened a neon shop in Buckhead, the article below revealing he has spent the intervening years as an actor.  "We just want to make it where everybody can have a piece of neon," he sighed. 

Kimo raising money for Paideia, circa 1985. 

In 1984 his neon sign for Scoop's Ice Cream won a national award and by 1988 his shop had moved to the Goat Farm.

Kimo demonstrating his flying abilities in the Goat Yard shop.

James Ball, one of Kimo's followers, painting the Fox vertical in 1989.

In 1990 Kimo perished in a car wreck en route to another party.  Fox Director of Restoration Rick Flinn wrote, "A candle that burned brightly but too briefly."

Soon after, the Fox published a tribute.

Kimo's name and reputation live on in Paideia's "Kimo Chamberlain Golden Tin Can Light Award," presented to a graduating senior for outstanding contribution to the technical side of theater at Paideia.

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December, 2025.