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 ...

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

Bob’s Java Jive, Tacoma’s beloved coffeepot-shaped bar, temporarily closed Tuesday following a visit from the local health department. The Jive’s owner, Richard Walden, told The News Tribune that ...