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 ...

Bob’s Java Jive is Tacoma. But in 1927, who could have known that the Coffee Pot (the Jive’s original name) would become such an icon to locals? Then again, a coffee pot-shaped building is bound to ...