Photo copyright Norfolk Historical Society

Long before Fed Ex or DHL, this G. Fox & Co. helicopter made a door-to-door delivery to a Norfolk family. The year was 1947, and the helicopter was part of the company’s promotion of its 100th year as a retail fixture in Hartford. At that time, Bob Steele hosted the G. Fox Morning Watch radio show on WTIC (precursor to the Bob Steele Show), and listeners tuned in daily to find out where and when the helicopter would make its next stop. And so on a cold January morning, a crowd gathered by the baseball diamond on Mountain Road to welcome the helicopter to the Ice Box of Connecticut. The delivery was a package of baby clothes, and the recipient was Dr. and Mrs. Richard Barstow’s young son, Ricky, pictured here in the arms of his mother Lorraine.

Ann Havemeyer