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Thanksgiving Anthem: Alice's Restaurant

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Thu Nov 23, 2006 at 03:27:30 AM EST
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Ok, I won't repeat my numerous posts about how Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant is the national Thanksgiving anthem on radio stations across the country.

The Boston Globe today does it for me.

And if you are in New York Saturday night, you can hear Arlo sing it live:

ARLO GUTHRIE. So it's the Saturday after Thanksgiving: Do you think the Guthrie fanatics went to Alice's Restaurant on Thursday? Ah, to be a hippie. (8 p.m., Isaac Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, 212-247-7800. $35-$60.)

Where's Alice? You can find her here (link fixed.) But she's also been in my kitchen for 30 years, where her cookbook from 1969 is prominently displayed and always in use.

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    Link to Alice (none / 0) (#1)
    by DavidDvorkin on Thu Nov 23, 2006 at 09:42:01 AM EST
    Needs to fixed so that it just reads

    http://www.alicebrock.com

    without the Talkleft part in front of it.

    Went there long ago (none / 0) (#2)
    by Bob In Pacifica on Thu Nov 23, 2006 at 10:18:09 AM EST
    When I was in army I was TDYed to Springfield, MA for a week in the spring of 1973, and my partner and I (we were running race relations seminars for the army) drove to the place and had dinner.

    I have no recollection of what we ate, just that the place wasn't very well-lit. As opposed to Arlso, apparently.

    i remember........................ (none / 0) (#3)
    by cpinva on Fri Nov 24, 2006 at 12:58:46 AM EST
    the first time i heard the song. i was 15, it had come out the year before, and vietnam was (still) going on. i had headphones on, so as not to disturb anyone else while listening to it.

    i started laughing so hard, my parents probably thought i was losing it completely. one of the funniest songs ever. i look forward to thanksgiving, knowing it will be on, in its entirety. :)

    ms. brock's site is pretty cool. i always wondered what she looked like, after i realized she was a real person. lol

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