S.F.'s strangest bar had monkeys, parrots and cobwebs. Lots of cobwebs Gary Kamiya FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace on Francisco Street was one of the most popular taverns in the city in the mid-19th century, and was definitely the strangest.File photoShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace, a North Beach tavern of the 19th century, with its namesake cobwebs visible.Wyland Stanley CollectionShow MoreShow Less From the Gold Rush days to almost the turn of the 20th century, the weirdest bar in San Francisco, if not the world, was in a dilapidated building on the waterfront in North Beach. It was known as Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace, and its like will never be seen again.