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 ...

After more than three decades of serving up brews, Java Jive — the beloved coffee shop on Ponce de Leon Avenue — announced it will be closing its doors. The coffee shop has been a staple on Ponce for ...

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 ...

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 ...