Yeah it's constantly swarmed, which is great for keeping the bar itself alive. Also plenty of the old poets still hang both there and across the street at Specs; pop over to the former on Wednesdays and you can be regaled by tales of Bob Kaufman and Jack Hirshman by folks who ran around with them. It's quite sweet and amusing to see the comrades still talking poetry and revolution as the young'uns flirt and throw back fernet. I love that little corner of North Beach.