Giant Turkey at Rockefeller Center - Happy Thanksgving From Roosevelt Island - Meet You At Alice's Restaurant!

Image of Rockefeller Center Turkey from The Onion

I was walking through Rockefeller Center the other day expecting to see the great Christmas Tree when instead there was a humongous TURKEY about to be stuffed with all the fixins right above the skating rink. Could it be possible? I was very hungry at the time and may have been focusing a bit too much on dinner but this was ridiculous. What did others think?

"I knew the crowds were going to be huge, but I wanted my son to be here on the day all the stuffing went in," said Cleveland resident Dean Carlson, who was visiting New York with his family. "You should have seen the look on his face when they peeled back the skin with that giant skidder. This is something he'll remember for the rest of his life."

Just kidding, getting ready for the holiday and thought I would have some fun. The Rockefeller Center Turkey image and quote are from the funny folks at The Onion.

I hope everybody has a Happy Thanksgiving. RI 360 posted about the first Roosevelt Island Thanksgiving in 1975. Take a look.

Here's my Thanksgiving Post from last year. Arlo Gurthrie's Alice's Restaurant has always been a part of Thanksgiving for me so I am repeating the post.



In addition to family, great food, the Macy's Parade, Miracle on 34th Street, March of the Wooden Soldiers and football, listening to Arlo Guthrie's rendition of Alice's Restaurant on WNEW-FM was, for me, a wonderful Thanksgiving tradition. A former DJ from the station remembers Thanksgiving and Arlo Guthrie this way on the blog All Mixed Up Radio.

Every year a couple of days before Thanksgiving, it starts. It's slow at first, and then turns into a non-stop avalanche of phone calls. And no matter how many times a station runs promo announcements telling people exactly when it will be played, the calls still come.

"What time are you playing 'Alice's Restaurant?'"

Some of the lyrics:

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.

You Tube link to short 2 minute video version above is here.
For those of you who want to go back in time and see the full 18 minute version of Alice's Restaurant, You Tube link is here.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL