Alice's restaurant

Alice's restaurant is a musical based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the same name. The song lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds, covering the entire A-side of Guthrie's 1967 debut record album. The whole story is real it is based on the life of a boy who doesn't to get drafted into the army. Alice M. Brock is the main character in the story who owns Alice's restaurant.in 1964, using $2,000 supplied by her mother, bought a church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where Alice and her husband Ray lived.

The reason they named the restaurant after her is because she was the one that owned it, and she was the main character of the story. Arlo Guthrie is the writer of the story, he is a singer/song writer. he made the song because he wanted to encourage listeners to sing along, to resist the draft, and to end war. He wanted the song to let people know how bad the was was and how they shouldn't join because it could ruin your life or end it, but it was also about how the government shouldn't be able to draft people when they want it should be about what the people want to do.

When they wanted him to join the army he wanted to do something so that he didn't have to go join, so what he did was he went and dumped a bunch of trash out some where so that he would get a ticket a not be able to join, but when he did this he had to go to court. when he got into the court he had a blind judge. after the hearing he got rejected from the army and didn't have to go. He got fined $50 and had to pick up trash in the snow.
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 . Because of Guthrie's criminal record for littering, he is first sent to the Group W Bench, where the convicts have to wait and then get actual rejected from the military. Arlo tells the audience that should they find themselves facing the draft they should walk into the military psychiatrist's office and sing, Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant, and walk out.