{"id":129427,"date":"2024-11-24T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129427"},"modified":"2024-11-24T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T22:25:00","slug":"alice-brock-who-helped-inspire-arlo-guthries-classic-alices-restaurant-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129427","title":{"rendered":"Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie\u2019s classic \u2018Alice\u2019s Restaurant,\u2019 dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">NEW YORK \u2014 Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/music-general-news-national-national-519f9721db0e4f8d87d07abcd6e790df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arlo Guthrie\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0deadpan Thanksgiving standard, \u201cAlice\u2019s Restaurant Massacree,\u201d has died at age 83.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Her death, just a week before Thanksgiving, was announced Friday by Guthrie on the Facebook page of his own Rising Son Records. Guthrie wrote that she died in Provincetown, Massachusetts, her residence for some 40 years, and referred to her being in failing health. Other details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis coming Thanksgiving will be the first without her,\u201d Guthrie wrote. \u201cAlice and I spoke by phone a couple of weeks ago, and she sounded like her old self. We joked around and had a couple of good laughs even though we knew we\u2019d never have another chance to talk together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Born Alice May Pelkey in New York City, Brock was a lifelong rebel who was a member of Students for a Democratic Society among other organizations. In the early 1960s, she dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College, moved to Greenwich Village and married Ray Brock, a woodworker who encouraged her to leave New York and resettle in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x\"><picture class=\"styles_image__1qciH\" data-testid=\"picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241123-Arlo-Guthrie-ch-1401-e23206.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241123-Arlo-Guthrie-ch-1401-e23206.jpg 1x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241123-Arlo-Guthrie-ch-1401-e23206.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241123-Arlo-Guthrie-ch-1401-e23206.jpg 1x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241123-Arlo-Guthrie-ch-1401-e23206.jpg\" alt=\"Arlo Guthrie.\" height=\"1667\" width=\"2500\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption styles_caption__Pe5JC\" data-testid=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption__container\" data-testid=\"caption__container\">US singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie in 2019 in Bethel, N.Y.<\/span><span class=\"caption__source\" data-testid=\"caption__source\">Angela Weiss \/ AFP via Getty Images file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Guthrie, son of the celebrated folk musician Woody Guthrie, first met Brock around 1962 when he was attending the Stockbridge School in Massachusetts and she was the librarian. They became friends and stayed in touch after he left school, when he would stay with her and her husband at the converted Stockbridge church that became the Brocks\u2019 main residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Thanksgiving Day, 1965, a simple chore led to Guthrie\u2019s arrest, his eventual avoidance of military service during the Vietnam War and a song that has endured as a protest classic and holiday favorite. Guthrie and his friend, Richard Robbins, were helping the Brocks throw out trash, but ended up tossing it down a hill because they couldn\u2019t find an open dumpster. Police charged them with illegal dumping, briefly jailed them and fined them $50, a seemingly minor offense with major repercussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By 1966, Alice Brock was running The Back Room restaurant in Stockbridge, Guthrie was a rising star and his breakout song was an 18-minute talking blues that recounted his arrest and how it made him ineligible for the draft. The chorus was a tribute to Alice \u2014 whose restaurant, Guthrie pointed out, was not actually called Alice\u2019s Restaurant \u2014 that countless fans have since memorized:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">You can get anything you want at Alice\u2019s Restaurant \/ You can get anything you want at Alice\u2019s Restaurant \/ Walk right in it\u2019s around the back \/ Just a half a mile from the railroad track \/ You can get anything you want at Alice\u2019s Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Guthrie assumed his song was too long to catch on commercially, but it soon became a radio perennial and part of the popular culture. \u201cAlice\u2019s Restaurant\u201d was the title of his million-selling debut album, and the basis of a movie and cookbook of the same name. Alice Brock would write a memoir, \u201cMy Life as a Restaurant,\u201d and collaborate with Guthrie on a children\u2019s book, \u201cMooses Come Walking.\u201d At the time of her death, they had been discussing an exhibit dedicated to her at her former Stockton home, now the Guthrie Center, which serves free dinners every Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">Brock ran three different restaurants at various times, although she would later acknowledge she initially didn\u2019t care much for cooking or for business. She would also cite her professional life as a cause of her marriage breaking up, while disputing rumors that she had been unfaithful to her husband. Her honor was immortalized by Guthrie, who late in \u201cAlice\u2019s Restaurant\u201d advised: \u201cYou can get anything you want\u201d at Alice\u2019s Restaurant, \u201cexcepting Alice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/alice-brock-arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-dead-rcna181486\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire\u00a0Arlo Guthrie\u2019s\u00a0deadpan Thanksgiving standard, \u201cAlice\u2019s Restaurant Massacree,\u201d has died at age 83. 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