Allendale is a former settlement in Alameda County, California now annexed to Oakland.
[1] It was located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Fruitvale.
[1] Allendale was named for Charles E. Allen, a real estate broker.
Allendale is on what might be called the cinema archipelago of East Oakland.
This applied to not only Allendale District, but nearby Laurel (which had two), Fairfax, Dimond, and Fruitvale (which had a second one nearby at Foothill and 35th Avenue), and another at the foot of Park Boulevard on the east side of the lake.