The Illustrated Model of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Traditional

Alice’s Restau­rant. It’s now a Thanks­giv­ing clas­sic, and a few­factor of a tra­di­tion round right here. File­ed in 1967, the 18+ minute coun­ter­cul­ture track recounts Arlo Guthrie’s actual encounter with the regulation, begin­ing on Thanks­giv­ing Day 1965. Because the lengthy track unfolds, we hear all about how a hip­pie-bat­ing police offi­cer, by the title of William “Obie” Oban­hein, arrest­ed…