Light Bulb Shop to go dark after nearly 40 years

One of the quirky retail shops Austin is known for is closing after nearly 40 years in business.
The Light Bulb Shop, Austin’s “local lighting shop” at 6318 Burnet Road in North Austin, opened in 1980. A note titled “It wasn’t an easy decision” posted on the shop’s Facebook page last week reads, “After a lot of consideration, number crunching, speculating, tears, laughs and hard choices, we have decided to close the business completely.”