Denver International Airport (DIA), 1995
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Edited by David Barth 24 January 2014. All photos are by David Barth.
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| Denver International Airport (DIA), 1995. |
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| Denver International Airport (DIA), 1995. |
This picture was taken in 1995, before the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001 that resulted in airports installing security procedures. After 2001, open areas like this one had passenger waiting lanes and scanners for passengers and bags installed. Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officers were employed to check passenger's identification.
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| Bronze statue of Elrey Borge Jeppesen. |
Elrey Borge Jeppesen was a pilot working for Varney Air Lines. He was the first to make aeronautical charts for pilots to navigate in flight. The information the he collected and the charts that he drew were at first only for personal use, but fellow pilots quickly saw the benefits of using these charts and Jeppesen started selling copies of his chart book for $10. Other pilots started to collect data on their own routes and handing this to Jeppesen for him to include in his navigation book.
United Airlines, the airline for which Jeppesen worked in the late 1930s after Varney Air Lines had merged with several other companies to form United Airlines, was one of the first airlines to start using Jeppesen's charts. After a while the chart business started taking up so much of Jeppesen's time that he quit his job as a Captain and focused his energy on making charts.
The terminal at Denver International Airport was named in honor of Jeppesen founder Elrey Borge Jeppesen in February 1991.
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| Denver International Airport (DIA), 1995. |
This picture was taken in 1995, before the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001 (9/11) that resulted in airports installing security procedures. After 2001, open areas like this one had passenger waiting lanes and scanners for passengers and bags installed. Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officers were employed to check passenger's identification.
Before 9/11, as shown in this photo, people could enter the airport, whether they had a ticket or not, and walk down the stairs with the white frame, shown in the center of this picture, to the trains that carried passengers to concourses A, B, or C. The only security checkpoints were in the boarding areas on each concourse.
After the government allowed planes to fly again, a few days after they had been grounded due to the terrorist attacks, security checkpoints that required passengers to show picture identification, were in place at major airports.
Those of us who worked for a secure Department of Defense facility had to wear our DOD picture ID around our necks while at work. However, they worked well at airports, and it made us feel good when we could answer a TSA agent who wanted to know what kind of ID it was, to say, "DOD," even though we had nothing to do with security.
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These are the moving walkways in concourse B
where United Airlines leased gates. |
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Carol Mikesh standing at a United Airlines Counter,
Denver International Airport, 1995. |
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| Denver International Airport, 1995. |
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| Denver International Airport, 1995. |
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| Denver International Airport, 1995. |
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| Denver International Airport, 1995. |
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| Denver International Airport, 1995. |