was alices resturant a place, or just a name for a song about a guy who tried to get in the military. never got what it was about whats your opnion.
2007-07-16 05:24:31 · 6 answers · asked by prince charming 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It's both.....
Guthrie's talk-song, a satirical, deadpan protest against the Vietnam War draft and widespread anti-hippie prejudice, recounts a true but comically exaggerated Thanksgiving adventure. "Alice" was restaurant-owner Alice M. Brock, who in 1964, using $2,000 supplied by her mother, bought a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where Alice and her husband Ray would live. It was here rather than at the restaurant, which came later, where the song's Thanksgiving dinners were actually held.
On that Thanksgiving, November 28, 1965, the 18-year-old Guthrie and his friend Richard Robbins, 19, were hauled into jail for illegally dumping some of Alice's garbage after discovering that the dump was closed for the holiday. Two days later they pleaded guilty in court before a blind judge, James E. Hannon; the song describes to ironic effect the arresting officer's frustration at the judge being unable to see the "27 8-by-10 color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us". In the end, Guthrie and Robbins were fined $50 and told to pick up their garbage. The song goes on to describe Guthrie's being called up for the draft, and the surreal bureaucracy at the New York City induction center on Whitehall Street. The punchline of the story's denouement is that because of Guthrie's criminal record for littering, he is first sent to the Group W Bench (where convicts wait) then outright rejected as unfit for military service
2007-07-16 05:30:47 · answer #1 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, Alices Restaurant was a place, but it was not called Alices Restaurant, like sometimes we call our fav. place by a nickname that only we and people in our area understand.
The song and the artist were protesting the needless killing of people in Vietnam. They have other songs on the same topic.
Great question.
2007-07-16 05:29:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a place
2007-07-16 05:28:08 · answer #3 · answered by Queen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea I was pretty young when I saw that movie but I think it was an actual place they were trying to get to and had all kinds of adventures on the way. I think I need to see it again maybe I will understand it more. Or not if it is as drug influenced as I think I remember it being
2007-07-16 14:41:32 · answer #4 · answered by 'lil peanut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a place... in the movie by the same name...
The song was from the soundtrack..
2007-07-16 05:27:54 · answer #5 · answered by I Can Count To Potato 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know , I'm the one people talk about,, hugs and kiss
2007-07-16 05:57:49 · answer #6 · answered by Flowers 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋