This realignment restored the AFC West to its initial post-merger roster of original AFL teams Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, and Oakland.

Eventual foreclosure and sale of the original Denver and Rio Grande Railway resulted within two years and the new Denver and Rio Grande Railroad took formal control of the property and holdings on July 14, 1886 with Jackson appointed as president.

Soon it took on its original name, South Golden Road, as the southern road from Denver to Golden.

The winning choice was Nuggets, in honor of the original Nuggets team who played in Denver from 1948 – 50, the last year as a charter member of the NBA.

In 1990, the Denver and Ephrata Telephone Company purchased the theater to restore the building and once again provide movies and live productions to the area, with many original fixtures incorporated into the renovated venue.

For scenes including only Denver, Hale, Backus, and Schafer the original footage was reused.

The original group held together long enough to fulfill their existing engagements, culminating in the Denver Pop Festival on June 29, 1969.

Cities such as San Francisco, Denver, New York and Phoenix became centers for the folk rock culture, playing on their central locations among the original folk circuits.

The chart below displays the original vote count for the 69th IOC meeting at Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1970, before the Denver rejection and the installation of Innsbruck, Austria, as alternate host.

Unlike the original series, which took place in San Francisco, California, the reunion took place in Denver, Colorado ( with the excuse that Ed Brown had become the city's deputy chief of police and being a leading candidate to be appointed chief ), which was also where most of the Perry Mason TV movies were produced.

* The original Frontier Airlines began two daily Boeing 737-200 flights to Denver, via Salt Lake City in July of 1979.

* On August 24, 1986 the original Frontier Airlines ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy, ending its seven year long service to Denver.

The original two-stadium concept was initially designed by Denver architect Charles Deaton and Steadman.

In the western United States, KOA in Denver, Colorado, KGA in Spokane, Washington, KEX in Portland, Oregon, and KHJ and KFI in Los Angeles, California, among many others, have been permitted to keep their original or reassigned three-letter call signs.

They are also the last of the original four franchises ( the Chicago Bruisers, Denver Dynamite and Washington Commandos were the other three ) to have operated in continuous existence from the formation of the league in 1987 until the present.

On May 20, 2009, it was announced that the WWE event scheduled for Pepsi Center would be moved to Staples Center in Los Angeles, California ( home of the Nuggets ' Western Conference Finals opponent ), and return to the Denver area for a non-televised event at the Denver Coliseum on August 7, 2009, with refunds for the original date made available at points of purchase.

Austin William " Goose " Gonsoulin ( born June 7, 1938 in Port Arthur, Texas ) of Baylor University was a Professional Football safety, the original Denver Bronco, selected first in the 1960 season.

* 2010 Denver musicians Munly and the Lupercalians released Petr and the Wulf, an alternative take on the original story.

As 1970 approached, three NFL teams ( the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers ), agreed to join the ten AFL teams ( the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins had joined the original Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Houston Oilers, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, and San Diego Chargers ) to form the American Football Conference ( AFC ).

However, the D & RGW continued to operate its own passenger train service, named the Rio Grande Zephyr, between Salt Lake City and Denver using the original equipment until 1983.

The original California Zephyr ran over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from Chicago to Denver, Colorado, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad between Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California.

A sequel followed in 2009 called OSS 117: Lost in Rio ( original title in French: OSS 117: Rio Ne Répond Plus ).

The original distribution of the family was the southeastern United States to north of Rio de la Plata, Argentina, and central and southern Africa, including Madagascar.

The albums ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango and Tejas were remixed with the result that the sound of the material from the first five albums was changed to sound like they had been recorded in the 1980s, with echo and drum machines, and very unlike their original album sound.

However, the remaining songs from ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, and Tejas have never appeared on CD in their original mixes.

* January 2, 2007: El Rio Del Tiempo closes in its original form

D & RGW 5371, the only original D & RGW locomotive in full Rio Grande paint on the Union Pacific, was retired by UP in December, 2008.

* The second remake, Rio Lobo, was made in 1970 with a plot much further off the original mold, starting with the absence of a lawman-turned-drunkard character.

* South Atlantic – originally the Cape to Rio, it was established in 1971 with over 50 original entries.

North Highlands ' original school district was called the Grant Joint Union High School District but in 2008 merged with another school district, the Rio Linda Union School District, creating the Twin Rivers Unified School District.

The present location of Rio Vista is several miles south of the original settlement.

The Trilogy at Rio Vista development, aimed at active adults, is a mile northwest of the original city on the Rio Vista Highway ( SR 12 ).

The Rio Tularosa, which still exists along the north side of the village, attracted the original settlers as a water source in the desert.

Gallipolis is the hometown of Bob Evans, founder of Bob Evans Restaurants, the original one which was located in Rio Grande, Ohio.

Fab 7, Intel's original Rio Rancho plant, closed in 2002 but is being converted into a test facility.

The original favela was erected on the Morro de Castelo in Rio de Janeiro by the families of soldiers returning from the Canudos Campaign

During the Empire of Brazil era, the American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, then residing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, composed two nationalistic works of classical music based on the Brazilian National Anthem that achieved great popularity during the imperial period: the Brazilian Solemn March (" Marcha Solene Brasileira ", in the modern Portuguese spelling or " Marcha Solemne Brazileira ", in the original spelling in force at the time of composition ) and the Great Triumphal Fantasy on the Brazilian National Anthem (" Grande Fantasia Triunfal sobre o Hino Nacional Brasileiro ").

It is one of the original roots styles of tango and contains all fundamental elements of traditional Tango from the Rio de la Plata region ( Uruguay and Argentina ).

In original Tex-Mex culinary parlance, fajitas are a dish with roots in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas made from a specific cut of meat: skirt steak.

Franciscan Missionaries, Fathers Angel Somera and Pedro Cambon, founded the original Mission San Gabriel Arcangel on September 8, 1771, near where San Gabriel Boulevard now crosses the Rio Hondo, which is also near the present day Sanchez Adobe Mansion.

The original members of this group were Haley, pianist and accordion player Johnny Grande and steel guitarist Billy Williamson.

On June 2, 2006, Johnny Grande, keyboardist with the 1954 – 55 Comets and an original founding member of the band, died after a short illness.

Houdon returned to favor during the French Consulate and Empire, being taken on as one of the original artistic team for what became the Column of the Grande Armée at Wimille.

* Grande Puissance ( French for " High Power "), original Belgian name for the Browning Hi-Power

The new interiors ignored the original floor levels and fenestration to accommodate a top-lit picture gallery modelled after the Grande Galerie of the Louvre.

The four original sections are: International Street, Medieval Faire, Grande World Exposition of 1890 ( now Action Zone ), and the Happyland of Hanna-Barbera ( divided into 2 kids areas now ).

In July 1983 Amtrak ceased operation of the San Francisco Zephyr and launched operation of a new California Zephyr over the CB & Q and Rio Grande legs of the original train route.

The original stadium replaced the Estádio do Campo Grande.

The original game is for three to six players and takes about one hour to play, but the Rio Grande edition adds alternative rules to allow games for two or seven players.

The Grande Dixence Dam submerged the original dam but the power station still operates with water received from the reservoir of the Grande Dixence Dam, Lac des Dix.

Grande was one of the original business partners who formed the Saddlemen ( the other partners being Bill Haley himself ( d. 1981 ) and steel guitarist Billy Williamson ( d. 1995 )).

The new version of the Pink Pig is a conventional Zamperla Rio Grande storyline train ride with a miniature pink pig locomotive pulling a set of pink child-sized passenger cars at ground level, instead of the original suspended monorail design.

The tribe's original territory was in Espírito Santo, and reached inland to the headwaters of Rio Grande ( Belmonte ) and Rio Doce on the eastern slopes of the Serra do Espinhaço.