Tom Madden and Chuck Garrett had just returned from Hawaii and were looking work as musicians in the Boston area when they got a call offering them a job. They were drinking coffee at the time, and ...

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 ...