Why is Bob's Java Jive, Tacoma's iconic coffee-pot bar, painted all white?

Built in 1927, the owner of the cement-covered, wood-frame haunt on South Tacoma Way has slowly but surely been restoring the ...
Yahoo

Bob’s Java Jive is a living piece of Tacoma history. Look inside this coffeepot-shaped bar

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 ...
KING5

A cry for help saves Tacoma landmark Bob's Java Jive

TACOMA, Wash. — “I'm going to be brutally honest with you right now and this is hard for me to say: As we sit now the Jive is broke. If we don't meet our goal we will not be able to open our doors ...
Seattle Times

Bob’s Java Jive in Tacoma is still in awesome (coffeepot) shape

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 ...