Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The exterior of Bob's Java Jive in Tacoma, Washington - Ben Harding/Shutterstock Yes, literally. In the heart of Tacoma, ...

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 MOST SURPRISING thing about Bob’s Java Jive in Tacoma is not that it is a building shaped like a coffeepot. The most surprising thing is that the shape is the least interesting thing about it. You ...

Java Jive is a cafe, deli and small gift shop wrapped into one convenient operation on one of the historic streets of downtown Hannibal. The business opened in 2000, following a pottery shop and small ...

In the gritty underbelly of crisscrossing highways, Tacoma’s coffee pot-shaped dive bar has lost its color — temporarily — as the owner, just a few years into his stewardship of the century-old icon, ...

Benito Catibog (left) and Jomi Rios play a game of pool on the table that made an appearance in the movie, "I Love You to Death," at the historic Bob's Java Jive tavern in Tacoma, Washington, shown on ...