2024-11-24 18:45
I realize this is more Boomer than Gen Jones, but...
Alice Brock, whose eatery in western Massachusetts was immortalized as the place where “you can get anything you want” in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 antiwar song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday in Wellfleet, Mass. — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the rambling story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.
Ever since Mr. Guthrie released the song, officially called “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” in 1967.