The Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Brock owned three different restaurants in Western Massachusetts between 1965 and 1979, including Take-Out Alice and Alice’s at Avaloch.

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie's deadpan Thanksgiving standard, "Alice's Restaurant," has died at age 83.

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 ...

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83.

Guthrie’s 1967 antiwar anthem with the refrain “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant” begins with an eventful Thanksgiving hosted by Ms. Brock.

And yes, in November 1965 Brock cooked a "Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat," which Guthrie and school friend Rick Robbins repaid by offering to take her trash to the dump, setting off an ...

Alice Brock, who has died aged 83, was the owner of a restaurant immortalised by Arlo Guthrie in his 1967 mock-heroic ballad Alice’s Restaurant (or to give it its full title Alice’s Restaurant ...

Alice Brock, the woman who was the real life inspiration for the iconic Arlo Guthrie song “Alice’s Restaurant,” has died, Guthrie announced on social media on Friday.

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died. She was 83.