Loads of legends circulate around the 97-year-old bar on South Tacoma Way. Bob’s Java Jive attracts a wide variety of regulars even today.

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?

Java Jive has performed in such exotic locations as Honolulu and Barbados as well as at weddings, corporate functions and open-air venues from Maine to Connecticut.