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Before it became CTV Vancouver , VTV (or Vancouver Television) operated on the corner of Robson and Burrard from 1997 to 2001. If you remember the era it was full of Pavel Bure and the Vancouver Grizzlies, and this promo sums them up pretty well.

Before it became CTV Vancouver, VTV (or Vancouver Television) operated on the corner of Robson and Burrard from 1997 to 2001. If you remember the era it was full of Pavel Bure and the Vancouver Grizzlies, and this promo sums them up pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzM-gZC1r0

Vancouver Television’s logo

This video is one of many gems that V.I.A. reader Rob Richardson has dug up from his collection. The source is a vast collection of VHS tapes that he recorded himself or has managed to collect from thrift stores, flea markets, storage lockers, yard sales, contacts with people in other parts of Canada and the U.S., and anywhere he can manage. He's driven over to Vancouver Island and as far down as Olympia, Washington to rescue analogue goodness before they've wound up in the scrapper and we're happy to bring you a Vancouver-centric clip each week.

Here are some others we've shared:

- Celebrities, back when it was known as the Crazy Horse Cabaret - 1977

- The Captain says Aye Aye and Goodbye to 175 pounds, smokes and alcoholism! - early 2000's

- "Look, a real mugger!", commercial for the Vancouver Playhouse - 1987

- Starboard Pant Factory's deals on acid wash jeans - 1987

- Back when the CBC produced "spine tingling" horror cassette tapes - 1985

- A TV commercial for the PNE starring Garfield, Odie and Nermal! - 1986

- Blackcomb Mountain launches - 1982

- The Captain, Aye Aye and Good Buy - 1994

- Royal City Antiques - 1985

- BC Place monster truck rally - 1985

- A British Columbia Minute from CBC - 1986