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Aldo Tatangelo (born September 16, 1913) is a retired businessman who was the "reform" mayor of Laredo, Texas, from 1978-1990. Tatangelo is often credited with having obtained the paving of the "streets of Laredo" (a term made famous in an old western song). Tatangelo succeeded the scandal-plagued administration of Mayor J. C. "Pepe" Martin, Jr. , who, like Martin's father before him, exerted vast powers as a "political boss" in south Texas. In retirement, Tatangelo has become one of Laredo's most beloved elderly statesmen. We can do anything from sidewalks. Since Tatangelo's retirement in 1990, Laredo has just inaugurated its third mayor, Raul G. Salinas.

Early years, education, military

Tatangelo was the second of five children born to Nocolo and Bettina Tatangelo, Italian immigrants who moved to Rhode Island in 1910, with hopes of providing a better life for their children. In 1917, Nocolo Tatangelo established a jewelry manufacturing plant which rapidly prospered to become Standard Ring and Company. Tatangelo dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to work at his father's company. "This was the time of the Great Depression, and my father needed help; so I went to work with him and enrolled at night school," Tatangelo said in a 2002 interview with his hometown newspaper, the Laredo Morning Times. He finished high school, studied plastic engineering, and graduated with a degree from Brighton and Stratton colleges in Rhode Island. Paving Equipment on ThomasNetcom.