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 ...

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 ...

QS/1 Data Systems has purchased the former home of Java Jive and the JM Smith subsidiary now owns almost the entire block of Ezell Street. The company bought the building at 198 Ezell St., which backs ...

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 ...