Edendale is a historical name for a district in
Los Angeles, California, northwest of
Downtown Los Angeles, in what is known today as
Echo Park,
Los Feliz and
Silver Lake. In the opening decades of the 20th century, in the era of
silent movies, Edendale was widely known as the home of most major
movie studios on the West Coast. Among its many claims, it was home to the
Keystone Kops, and the site of many movie firsts, including
Charlie Chaplin's first movie, the first feature-length comedy, and the first
pie-in-the-face. The Edendale movie studios were mostly concentrated in a [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Glendale+Boulevard+and+Berkeley+Avenue,+Los+Angeles,+CA&daddr=Glendale+Boulevard+and+Duane+Street+,+Los+Angeles,+CA&hl=en&sll=34.087107,-118.260226&sspn=0.015674,0.02532&dirflg=w four-block stretch of Allesandro Street, between Berkeley Avenue and Duane Street]. Allesandro Street was later renamed Glendale Boulevard (and a smaller nearby street took on the name Allesandro).