Restaurant owner Alice Brock immortalized by popular Arlo Guthrie song 'Alice's Restaurant' dies at 83

Massachusetts edifice owner, Alice Brock, who was immortalized by a fashionable Arlo Guthrie song, has died astatine the property of 83. 

Brock died successful a hospice connected Thursday successful Wellfleet from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, her caretaker Viki Merrick told The New York Times. 

She was champion known for Guthrie's 1967 antiwar opus Alice's Restaurant, a Thanksgiving staple classic-rock production. 

In the 18-minute song, Guthrie sings 'you tin get thing you want' astatine Brock's edifice and rambles a recounting of a sojourn to her edifice the Back Room successful Western Massachusetts for Thanksgiving meal 1 year. 

In the lyrics, Brock cooked a large repast for Guthrie and his person Rick Robbins the time earlier they appeared successful tribunal for littering; Guthrie sings astir however helium and Robbins near trash successful a ravine. 

Brock, who bailed the men out, adjacent helped the songwriter constitute the archetypal fractional of the song. 

'We were sitting astir aft meal and wrote fractional the song,' she previously said. 

After the song's release, the edifice proprietor became a spot celebrated herself and radical began to admit her from it. 

'I was precise uncomfortable due to the fact that nationalist figures are not truly treated with overmuch respect,' she told WAMC Northeast Public Radio successful 2014. 'Once your sanction is successful the paper, radical consciousness that they tin go: "Oh, are you Alice? Turn around," similar they privation to spot my down oregon something.' 

Guthrie performed the opus astatine the 1967 Newport Folk Festival and it was besides the rubric way disconnected his archetypal album. 

Despite her abbreviated dose of fame, Brock enactment her vigor into the edifice concern and tried different established. 

But she closed up her past 1 successful 1979 earlier she moved to Provincetown successful Cape Cod, wherever she took coating arsenic a career. 

However, the restaurateur couldn't afloat flight the fame Guthrie's opus brought and she yet leaned into it. 

'I resented it for a agelong time, she told the vigor station. 'But I've travel to recognize present that radical are conscionable delighted erstwhile they perceive my name, truthful however tin I complain?'