Son to Take Over Same Old Place

Eric Ciampa will take over the longstanding JP restaurant after the death of his father, Fred Ciampa.

Same Old Place will be getting a change. Pending some paperwork with the city, Eric Ciampa will take over management duties at Same Old Place, a 40-year pizza-and-sub institution in Jamaica Plain. Fred Ciampa, the restaurant’s founding owner, died last July at age 69. Eric Ciampa opened Hyde Square’s Slice O’ Pie restaurant in February 2011, but the shop closed abruptly in June 2012. Ciampa had trouble with the city over its licenses early in the year, but the JPNC affirmed Ciampa’s licenses in May 2012. The shop closed one week later, due ultimately to a “spat with the landlord,” a source says. Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council member Michael Reiskind said at a Jan. 29 meeting that a city board has to be notified of any management change…

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JP Deaths

Fred Ciampa, Owner of Jamaica Plain Institution Same Old Place, 69

Ciampa died suddenly on Sunday night, his family told the Gazette. His family opened their iconic pizza parlor in 1977.

Fred Ciampa, known to generations of JP residents as the gregarious proprietor of Same Old Place, died Sunday night, his family told the Gazette. He was 69. The family will receive visitors at the Gillooly Funeral Home, 126 Walpole St. (Route 1A) in Norwood on Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m., according to the Boston Globe. Ciampa's funeral service will be held Thursday at 9 a.m. at St. Dennis Church, 157 Washington St., Westwood. Ciampa's pizza parlor, founded in the 1970s, has become known one of Boston's best places for New York-style pizza. The community rallied around the pizza shop in November 2010 when a gang feud erupted into a knife and gun fight inside the restaurant. The incident left three men dead and a passerby wounded. Residents …

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ra camp

11:51 am on Thursday, July 26, 2012

1974-78 SOP was my summer employment. I never "graduated" to the pizza making level, but loved working there with folks like Eddie and Arthur. Those two made the best pizzas of the time. My generation would always stop in after a full day at the skating rink on cold, wintery Saturday late afternoons. Walking to the rink, back and forth saved us .20¢ and with another .25¢ we would get a slice of …   more ›