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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FALCON HEIGHTS (WCCO) --Last week in Mike's Mix, I had an ice cream float made with alcoholic root beer. But the audience couldn't have samples, because you can't hand out beer. This week, it's a ...

Iconic breakfast restaurant Java Jive is set to close next month after 30 years on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The Dec. 22 closure was announced in a post on the restaurant’s Instagram account: “We can’t ...

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 ...