One of the last gas stations built in the area around Beverly and Hobart prior to WWII that hasn’t been remodeled “beyond recognition” will see new life as a coffee shop—and no, it won’t be a Starbucks.

The streamline moderne-style Whittier's Texaco Station, located at 4450 West Beverly Boulevard, on the edge of Koreatown, was built in 1941. It was one of three gas stations around that intersection where drivers fueled up as the city boomed through the mid-1960s.

Now a new business called Full Service Coffee Co. is taking over with a “coffee stand with take out service.” In a statement, cofounder Edoardo Chavarin says, “the iconic 1940s Texaco Station will be celebrated and preserved to its original aesthetic as much as possible.”

(The pumps were removed when the gas station was converted to a used car dealership following its closure in 1965.)

The gas station was almost named a city landmark in 2011, but the application was ultimately denied by the Los Angeles City Council.

It looks like Full Service Coffee Co. had planned to be up and running by now, but the opening has been delayed until this fall. It was just in June that it obtained permits from the department of building and safety to change the site’s use from a gas station to a coffee shop and to build a bathroom in the old lubrication building.