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San Francisco News in 1947 did a story on the house: Miss Anna Marie Adams shows photographer Eddie Murphy the inside of one of the few remaining cable-car houses at 1415 47th Ave. - San Francisco News , April 8, 1947, pg. 13 From the outside of the Fitzgerald house it is almost impossible to spot the cable cars. The house is a three-story square structure with a garage on the street level and two dwelling levels above. A hallway runs around the cars, which are intact on three sides. One side of each was knocked out so they could be put together to make a single room with hardwood floor. The ceiling comes down in the middle where the two cars are joined, making it an uncomfortable spot for a tall person. ....
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. ....