ASK!: Mystery of buildings found on I-25 is solved
By Mike Rudeen, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published October 6, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Paul is intrigued by what he describes as yellow buildings with red doors and "what looks to be an outhouse" behind each along I-25 south of town. He wonders what they are.
In the old days of the telephone business, those buildings, known as repeater huts, housed power plants that helped boost telephone signals along the line, in this case between Denver and Colorado Springs. Mountain Bell and, later, U S West used them until the 1980s, said Jerry Wild, a retired phone company employee who now volunteers at the Telecommunications History Group.
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