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In November of 1965, Arlo, aspiring folk singer and son of legendary troubador Woody Guthrie, and his friend Rick Robbins drove to Great Barrington, Massachusetts to have Thanksgiving dinner with their friends Alice and Ray Brock. The Brocks were both teachers at the nearby Stockbridge School of Stockbridge, Mass, where Arlo was a recent graduate.
Once at their house, Arlo and Rick helped the Brocks clean the church of all the garbage that had piled up and take the trash to the dump. When they reached the garbage dump [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they found it closed, so they left the trash down a hill nearby. This action leads them down the rabbit hole into a Wonderland of stupidity.
As mentioned above, “Alice’s Restaurant” is a (mostly) true story. The people involved were real, and both the church where the Alice and Ray Brock and the lunch counter that Alice ran still exist.
It is the other part of the song Brock alludes to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where Arlo is called before the Draft Board, that made “Alice’s Restaurant” an antiwar classic. Arlo has to stand in front of the Draft Board, only to be saved from the draft by his conviction for littering. The irony of this, along with the song’s punch line (“you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug") galvanized the hippie anti-war movement.
Alice’s Church Still Stands Today
Not long after, the pair were arrested by Stockbridge officer William J. Obanhein, soon to be immortalized as Officer Obie. Incidentally, Officer Obie would later go on to become the Stockbridge Chief of Police.
The Arlo Guthrie song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” tells what appears to be an impossible story poking fun at the foolishness of authority. Yet, the absurdity of the lyrics in “Alice’s Restaurant” are for the most part, true. Alice, Officer Obie, and even Judge Hannon were all real people, and the heinous crime of littering actually took place that fateful Thanksgiving holiday.
Two days later, Arlo and Rick pled guilty to littering to Judge James Hannon. As spoken of in “Alice’s Restaurant,” Judge Hannon was blind and could not see the photo evidence the Stockbridge police had so diligently taken. The pair were fined $25 each and ordered to clean up the trash.
Officer Obie later admitted that he had no sympathy for the kids and the other hippies that had been coming into Stockbridge, and decided to give Guthrie and Robbins a scare. Obanhein threw the kids into a jail cell until Alice Brock posted bail.
Alice Brock has said that immediately after returning home from their ordeal, the group started writing the song that would become “Alice’s Restaurant.” "We were sitting around after dinner and wrote half the song," Alice recalls, "and the other half, the draft part, Arlo wrote."
Ironically, Arlo’s conviction did not exempt him from the draft. According to Massmoments.org, “he was classified 1A [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but his lottery number never came up.”
Alice’s Restaurant was formally named &ldqu
The couple lived in a deconsecrated church, and often had young people and itinerants staying with them. Alice owned a small luncheonette nearby, about half a mile from the railroad track. This restaurant would soon be immortalized by the song’s chorus, even though it plays no role in the song’s events.
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