Austin retail staple Vulcan Video announced on April 7, 2020 that it would be permanently closing its doors after 35 years in business. Co-owner Dian Donnell informed employees in an email, citing the coronavirus pandemic. Donnell stated that Vulcan Video’s operators have “closed the store, and we have no way of knowing when it will be safe to open again, for both employees and customers.”

Vulcan Video
4411 Russell Drive
Austin, Texas 78745

After 35 years we are closing the doors at Vulcan Video.

We opened when VHS was becoming a thing and we wanted an art house equivalent of Blockbuster. As lifetime movie lovers, this was a career that actually looked fun.

The first years of Vulcan we were actually a part of a poster store, Movie Art. After two years we became Vulcan Video on 29th Street, near the campus. To make a (very) long story short, it was great. Our second greatness was in South Austin at Elizabeth. Lovely. And now at Russell Drive, we come to this. High rent, online video, and then Corona Virus. Sounds like a movie villainess. Kind of is.

We simply cannot support extending our business into an uncertain future, even of several months.
Thanks to you, all our dear customers who literally made it possible, and to the Chronicle and the Statesman for your loving support, and to the many staffs over these years who have unselfishly shared their vast movie love on the front lines.

UPDATE: If you currently have movies rented from us please return them to the Vulcan drop box in front of End of an Ear.

Bless you all and stay safe,
Vulcan Video