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 ...

Built in 1927, the owner of the cement-covered, wood-frame haunt on South Tacoma Way has slowly but surely been restoring the unique structure.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the gritty underbelly of crisscrossing highways, Tacoma’s coffee pot-shaped dive bar has lost its color — temporarily — as the ...

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 ...

If you’ve watched television recently, you might’ve seen one of Toyota’s latest commercials advertising the new 2024 Toyota Tacoma. But you might’ve also spotted some familiar locations. Bob’s Java ...