Anthony "Red" Cardillo Sr. operating his Clarke-Airborn bulldozer in the summer of 1948. This was the first machine Red owned and it allowed him to start the Anthony Cardillo Bulldozer Service, which later developed into A. Cardillo &. Son, Inc.	Anthony "Red" Cardillo Sr. had just finished serving our country in World War II. He returned to his Belmont, MA home where he began working with his father, Pascale Cardillo, a local mason. Red had decided that the masonry business was not for him and wanted to go into the excavation business. In April of 1948 Red bought his first machine, a 1942 Clarke - Airborne bulldozer and started the Anthony Cardillo Bulldozer Service. To start, Red worked days with his father doing masonry work and got small jobs working nights and Sundays digging and backfilling foundations with his bulldozer.
Through the '50s and '60s Red's company grew. He had many machines including: 15B Bucyrus Erie cable backhoe, HD 5 Allis Chalmers shovel dozers, HD 7 and 16 bulldozers, and Mack Dumps and tractor, that would allow him to do a wide range of excavating jobs. Red had developed many relationships with local construction companies because of his reputation of hard work and honesty. He had established customers like Jeremiah Sullivan Co. Richard White, Turner Construction, and Shuman Construction Co. Red had also supplie machines for the excavation of the Prudential building in Boston, MA.	Reds Mack LJ tractor with his two HD 5 Allis Chalmers shoveldozers on there way back from plowing snow for the city of Cambridge.
Tony Cardillo Jr. unloading a Cat 955 shoveldozer	In the early '70s Reds son, Anthony "Tony" Cardillo Jr., began working with Red. They changed the name of the company to what it is known as today, A. Cardillo &. Son, Inc. Tony and Red worked hard through the economically difficult '70s doing whatever they could to grow the company. In the late '70s they bought their first hydraulic excavators and began to expand the size of the work they were willing to take on. They did many new subdivisions around the Boston area. Tony knew that he had to have the edge on his competition, so in the mid '80s they were one of the first companies around to purchase a hydraulic hammer and thumb attachments  for their excavators. By the mid '90s Tony and his father had grown their company into one the most well known excavating companies in the greater Boston area.
In the new millennium Tony's sons and daughter, Anthony III, Mike, and Kristin Cardillo have joined the team and are leading the company through hard work, ambition, and honesty, attributes they learned from the example set by their father and grandfather. Now, more than ever, the company is expanding and taking on jobs ranging from simple residential sites to complicated commercial and residential developments.	NASDI Corporate headquaters garage and site development