Janss Marketplace
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Janss Marketplace is an outdoor shopping mall in Thousand Oaks, California. Previously known as Janss Mall, it opened in September 1961 as Village Lane. It was the first mall established in the city, and Thousand Oaks' only shopping center until The Oaks was built in 1978.[1][2][3] 39 businesses are located here as of 2024.[4] Conejo Valley Art Museum is also located here. It is home to well-known anchoring stores - Nordstrom Rack, and Old Navy. - along with specialty shops and fast food establishments. It has a nine-screen movie theater and is surrounded by neighborhood restaurants.[5]
A big attraction here in the 1960s was its 854-seat Fox Conejo movie theater. The theater opened in May 1963 with a gala premiere of the movie A Gathering of Eagles (1963). Celebrities such as Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Eden, Gary Crosby and Annette Funicello attended the opening gala.[6]
In 2015,
The Reign of Terror Haunted House is located here, which is a 25,000 square feet (2,300 square meters) house open for tours on and around Halloween.[8][9]
Toys "R" Us closed in June 2018.
On June 28, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 78 stores nationwide. The store closed in September 2018.
References
- ISBN 9781467125697.
- ISBN 9780897812993.
- ISBN 9781888454000.
- ^ "Janss Marketplace". janssmarketplace.net. Archived from the original on 2014-10-09.
- ISBN 978-1581920611.
- ISBN 9780897812993.
- ^ "At Janss Marketplace | Seritage".
- ^ "Beware! Reign of Terror even bigger". 28 September 2017.
- ^ "Green slime joins Reign of Terror's ghouls in Thousand Oaks — or does it?".
- ^ "Sears closing Thousand Oaks store". 29 June 2018.