Results: Alice's Restaurant
Published on 11/24/2024
Alice's Restaurant is a 1967 talking 'song' by Arlo Guthrie that gets radio play around Thanksgiving as that's when it's set. "You can get anything you want I Alice's Restaurant..." (Excepting Alice...)
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True story - an exaggerated but mostly true story from Guthrie's own life. While visiting friends in Massachusetts, (including Alice Brock), he is arrested and convicted of dumping trash illegally, which later endangers his suitability for the military draft. The song is a satiric take on this I won't post the video as runs several minutes. Have you heard it / of it before?
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Odd question - ever get arrested or in trouble for littering / dumping trash?
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Ever been drafted, regardless the conflict?
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The movie - a 1967 flick based on the song. Stars Guthrie as himself, with Pat Quinn and James Broderick as Alice and Ray Brock. The real Alice owned three different restaurants from 1965 and 1979 in Massachusetts, there was even a cookbook. By sheer chance, anyone ever go to The Back Room, Take-Out Alice and Alice's at Avaloch?
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