Named after the intersection of San Francisco’s Haight Street and Ashbury Street, the Haight-Ashbury district is also known as The Upper Haight or simply as The Haight. Because of its close proximity to Golden Gate Park, the Haight-Ashbury district had been a middle class residential area ever since the Haight cable car line connected it to the Market Street cable car line and the rest of downtown San Francisco. But the character of Haight-Ashbury changed radically during the 1960’s hippie movement, especially during the famous Summer of Love in 1967. Classic rock and roll groups such as The Grateful Dead and The Jefferson Airplane popularized the hippie subculture along with Janis Joplin and Scott McKenzie’s 1967 hit song “San Francisco”.