Robin Williams’ wax figure was the first thing you’d see once the elevators opened in Madame Tussauds.

Another Fisherman’s Wharf staple has suddenly shuttered. Madame Tussauds, San Francisco’s outpost of the world-famous wax museum, has closed its doors permanently, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)

The museum featured statues of notable San Francisco figures like Robin Williams, Janis Joplin and former Mayor Ed Lee, along with a barely recognizable Lady Gaga and “a jail cell featuring Al Capone holding a banjo,” according to SFGATE’s senior food reporter Madeleine Wells, who rated it 7 out of 10 in her review of Fisherman’s........

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