Skip to main content Specs', one of San Francisco's oddest and most loved bars, is hanging on for dear life FacebookTwitterEmail Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, San Francisco.Google Street View One of San Francisco’s most eccentric and loved dive bars is hanging on for dear life. “It’s been a nightmare,” Specs' co-owner Maralisa Simmons-Cook told SFGATE. “It’s pretty bleak.” Specs' has been a favorite North Beach watering hole of artists, poets and musicians for more than 50 years and was a bar for years before that, marking the site of a speakeasy and one of San Francisco’s first lesbian establishments.