I remember the opening of that airport. It was touted as one of the most advanced airports in the world.
The baggage system was so humongous, complicated and screwed up that your bags would actually arrive with you at your destination airport...
It cost 26 million, never worked then got scrapped. DIA means Democrats In Action. Governor Roy Romer and Mayor Frederico Pena.
I remember when it opened there was a cartoon with a long line of men with sledge hammers smashing luggage on a conveyor belt as it passed by. The caption read that the automatic baggage mangling machine at the new Denver Airport had broken down and the job had to be done manually, as before.