The Starlite Music Theater opened in 1957 and was a popular venue located in Latham. There were many acts that passed through the Starlite until 1997. It was a 3,000 seat theater in the round. In the 1980s I saw Belinda Carlisle of the Go Gos at the Starlite Music Theater. Kenny Rogers, The Monkees, Weird Al Yankovic, Jonny Cash, Run DMC, Diana Ross, and more graced the stage. The Starlite closed its doors in 1998 and laid dormant for years. Then in December of 2012, the Starlite was demolished. Here are pictures of the venue in the summer of 2012 before it was leveled.
I can still remember the Chuck E. Cheese's in the Northway Mall, the game parlor, the concert hall where you ate and how I was always too terrified by the singing robots to eat so I cried instead.
A lot of people are very upset and frightened today because of the Presidential Election so I thought it would be a good idea to play the Glad Game like Stewie Griffin did in that episode of Family Guy, I'll start.
Another symbol of my childhood is gone. Sure the building was vacant for years, but every time I drove by the old L-Kens I could still taste the sausage (no pun intended).