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 ...

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.

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 ...