The Washington Squares were a 1980s neo-beatnik folk revival
music group.
Modeled after early 1960s groups like The Kingston Trio and
Peter, Paul and Mary, the group was named after New York City's Washington
Square Park, emblematic of Greenwich Village. The group, consisting of Bruce
Jay Paskow, Tom Goodkind, and Lauren Agnelli, came up with their name over free
drinks provided by Agnelli, who was a waitress at a Mickey Ruskin's Chinese
Chance off Washington Square Park where Goodkind and Paskow were regulars.
Paskow, Goodkind, and Agnelli dressed, played, and sang in a
style evocative of the idealistic, left-leaning folk revival groups of the
Kennedy era, but added a layer of post-punk Reagan-era irony.
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