This weekend, in typical Jive, DIY fashion, Bandolier, Motopony, The Painkillers, DJ Darrren Selector, Dave the bartender - and the Jive's extended, beer drinking family - will gather at the South Tacoma Way landmark to celebrate 55 official years of Bob's Java Jive. The event is intended to mark the anniversary of when Bob and Lylabell Radonich made the fateful decision to purchase the coffee pot shaped restaurant - originally constructed in 1927 - and turn it into a bar and music venue, creating a Tacoma legend along the way (as well as a few nicotine addicted chimps).

It's a celebration, and without even saying it, it's also part of a community's - our community's - constant effort to "Save the Jive."

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[Bob's Java Jive, The Painkillers, Motopony, Bandolier, DJ Darrren Selector, Saturday, April 10, 9 p.m., $5, 2102 S. Tacoma Way, Tacoma, 253.475.9843]