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I've had a long and fond association with this song and all the characters in the film; I grew up in Amherst but all my mother's relatives are from Lenox and Pittsfield. I have really wanted to know what building held the restaurant -- does anyone know the address it had at the time?

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Well...Alice doesn't have a restaurant there anymore, but someone else does, and it truly is about half-a-mile from the railroad tracks. By chance I lived in this building a few years ago. The building the restaurant was in (40 Main Street, Stockbridge) hasn't really changed on the outside, but the configuration inside has changed. On the ground floor it currently houses The Main Street Cafe and Theresa's Stockbridge Cafe. At the time of Alice's the thin eatery layout ran the length of the building from front to back along the side alley. Presently, there is a handpainted sign for Theresa's indicating the former location of Alice's. Interestingly, at some point during the 1950s-60s (not sure if it was at the same time), Norman Rockwell's art studio was on the second floor overlooking Main Street; the chonicler of every day Americana contrasted with the counter culture...how 'bout that.

If you're ever in Stockbridge visit The Historical Room in the basement of the Library, which may have additional info on Alice's, aside from other interesting artifacts of note.

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The lyrical "Alice's Restaurant" was in The Old Trinity Church which is located at 4 Van Deusenville Road Housatonic, MA
This is now the home for the Guthrie Center and Foundation (named for Mr & Mrs. Woodie Guthrie, not Arlo). For a LOT more info go to http://www.guthriecenter.org/main.shtml

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