Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie's classic 'Alice's Restaurant,' dies at 83

Arlo Guthrie sings 'Amazing Grace' to his new bride, Jackie Hyde, at their wedding ceremony on Guthrie's Washington, Mass., farm on Oct. 9, 1969. Alice Brock of 'Alice's Restaurant' is second from the right in the background.

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie's deadpan Thanksgiving standard, Alice's Restaurant Massacree, has died at age 83.