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Alice's Restaurant (Original Post)
Cosmo Blues
Thursday
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hlthe2b
(112,327 posts)1. Listened to it myself as well. Youngsters need to listen (Arlo Guthrie was the consumate story teller & it is hilarious)
Cosmo Blues
(3,253 posts)3. Now a Thanksgiving tradition
You can always sit at the kids table and play this
SeattleVet
(5,797 posts)2. Listen to it every year, and also watch the movie.
Officer Obie plays himself, the judge is the same guy.
Alice is in the film, but not as herself. She's a guest at the wedding.
My induction center was at 100 Whitehall Street, where I also got injected, inspected, infected, neglected, and detected.
Cosmo Blues
(3,253 posts)4. I went for draft counseling at UCLA
They told me to register for the draft because I shouldn't go to jail twice once for not registering once for not going. Filled out the forms to be a conscientious objector, after 2 years they designated me a 1/H or 1/I, I can't recall. But then my lottery number was so high we had no more contact