The Song Alices Restaurant

Alice’s Restaurant was in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, it was opened by Alice M Brock in the 1960’s. The original Alice’s Restaurant was open for one year before her and her husband, Ray Brock, divorced. Since the restaurant was in an alley way I think that the restaurant looked kind of dirty, but yet nice!
I think that Arlo Guthrie wrote the song because him and his friend owed Alice something for getting her in trouble with the trash dumping, and for having to put up with him. This song sounds both hyperbolic and sarcastic. When he is saying that “ You can get whatever you want” he means that you can get whatever you want.
Alice was an artist at a private art school in Stockbridge. I think that Guthrie named the song after her restaurant because the song is about him and his friend dumping Alice’s trash and about her restaurant. These days Alice is living in Provincetown, Massachusetts and owns her own studio and gallery, and she illustrated Guthrie’s children book, Moses Come Walking.