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Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe

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Specs Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (August 2020) 1)
Specs Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (August 2020) 1)

Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (also known as "Specs") is a historic bar, located in the North Beach district of San Francisco. The bar is known to be "home to a menagerie of misfits, from strippers and poets to longshoremen and merchant marines." Notable patrons have included Thelonious Monk, Jack Hirschman, Warren Hinckle, and Herb Caen.

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Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe
Saroyan Place, San Francisco

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Saroyan Place 527-529
94113 San Francisco
California, United States
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