Sixty years into its official cityhood, Thousand Oaks can be proud of a long history going back to the days of adobe buildings and continuing through the construction of a central lake — where kids once fished from dirt banks and were paid, it is said, to catch “mud hens” there — to the flourishing of civic culture expressed for decades in the Conejo Valley Days parades.
60 Years for Thousand Oaks: A Young City With a Rich History