Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The patron called Snake gestures toward the blue-felt pool table in the coffeepot-shaped bar in Tacoma. “I call it the ‘pool ghost ...

The exterior of Bob's Java Jive in Tacoma, Washington - Ben Harding/Shutterstock Yes, literally. In the heart of Tacoma, Washington, lives a between 25 and 26-foot tall, 30-foot wide massive coffee ...

Bob’s Java Jive is a bar — a dive bar, to be more specific — in the truest sense of the name. Shaped like a big coffee pot, and stained by decades of cheap spilled beer and long nights, the South ...

Greg Olle, owner of the downtown coffeehouse and café, has been evicted after not paying rent since the fall. He said Tuesday would be his last day of business. Olle operated Java Jive at 198 Ezell St ...

Bob’s Java Jive, Tacoma’s beloved coffeepot-shaped bar, temporarily closed Tuesday following a visit from the local health department. The Jive’s owner, Richard Walden, told The News Tribune that ...

Up-and-coming rock stars once came and went from Bob’s Java Jive. Go-go dancers performed on a greased wooden stage, and macaque monkeys lived in the backroom. The monkeys have left, and the ...

Tom Madden and Chuck Garrett had just returned from Hawaii and were looking work as musicians in the Boston area when they got a call offering them a job. They were drinking coffee at the time, and ...

The patron called Snake gestures toward the blue-felt pool table in the coffeepot-shaped bar in Tacoma. “I call it the ‘pool ghost.’ Not everyone has seen it,” Snake told The News Tribune on a Monday ...