Nearby, a woman with purple hair and a colorful outfit had her sleeve left sleeve rolled up as Capobianco cleaned and wrapped her new artwork. "He has been talking about getting her in here for a while," Capobianco said. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., got her first tattoo at a shop in Washington, D.C., in 2023, at the age of 80.
Joe Capobianco once convinced David Hartman, a longtime spokesman for the New Haven Police Department, not to get a tattoo on his arm of an octopus with Elvis' head. Standing in Hope Gallery Tattoo on Sunday morning, Hartman said Capobianco has done all 12 pieces on his arms. But it was his current boss's first time in Capobianco's chair.
